Author: Robert Brenner
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1789608856
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Merchants and Revolution examines the activities of London's merchant community during the early Stuart period. Proposing a new understanding of long-term commercial change, Robert Brenner explains the factors behind the opening of long-distance commerce to the south and east, describing how the great City merchants wielded power to exploit emerging business opportunities, and he profiles the new colonial traders, who became the chief architects of the Commonwealth's dynamic commercial policy.
Merchants and Revolution
Author: Robert Brenner
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1789608856
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Merchants and Revolution examines the activities of London's merchant community during the early Stuart period. Proposing a new understanding of long-term commercial change, Robert Brenner explains the factors behind the opening of long-distance commerce to the south and east, describing how the great City merchants wielded power to exploit emerging business opportunities, and he profiles the new colonial traders, who became the chief architects of the Commonwealth's dynamic commercial policy.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1789608856
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Merchants and Revolution examines the activities of London's merchant community during the early Stuart period. Proposing a new understanding of long-term commercial change, Robert Brenner explains the factors behind the opening of long-distance commerce to the south and east, describing how the great City merchants wielded power to exploit emerging business opportunities, and he profiles the new colonial traders, who became the chief architects of the Commonwealth's dynamic commercial policy.
Britain and the China Trade 1635-1842
Author: Patrick J. N. Tuck
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
ISBN: 9780415190046
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
ISBN: 9780415190046
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
English Commercial Relations with the Asiatics, 1600-1615
Merchant Networks in the Early Modern World, 1450–1800
Author: Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351918109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Merchant organisation was a global phenomenon in the early modern era, and in the growing contacts between peoples and cultures, merchants may be seen as privileged intermediaries. This collection is unique in essaying a truly global coverage of mercantile activities, from the Wangara of the Central Sudan, Mississippi and Huron Indians, to the role of the Jews, the Muslim merchants of Anatolia, to the social structure of the mercantile classes in early modern England. The histories of merchant communities are not their histories alone, but also the histories of assumptions concerning their contexts. From the comparative perspective adopted here, it emerges that in markets where Western European merchants vied for place with competitors from the Near East, South Asia or East Asia, they were very often unsuccessful.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351918109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Merchant organisation was a global phenomenon in the early modern era, and in the growing contacts between peoples and cultures, merchants may be seen as privileged intermediaries. This collection is unique in essaying a truly global coverage of mercantile activities, from the Wangara of the Central Sudan, Mississippi and Huron Indians, to the role of the Jews, the Muslim merchants of Anatolia, to the social structure of the mercantile classes in early modern England. The histories of merchant communities are not their histories alone, but also the histories of assumptions concerning their contexts. From the comparative perspective adopted here, it emerges that in markets where Western European merchants vied for place with competitors from the Near East, South Asia or East Asia, they were very often unsuccessful.
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture
Author: Gary Taylor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198185707
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1185
Book Description
A comprehensive companion to 'The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton', providing detailed introductions to and full editorial apparatus for the works themselves as well as a wealth of information about Middleton's historical and literary context.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198185707
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1185
Book Description
A comprehensive companion to 'The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton', providing detailed introductions to and full editorial apparatus for the works themselves as well as a wealth of information about Middleton's historical and literary context.
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1893
Author: Royal Asiatic society of Great Britain and Ireland, London. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society
A Catalogue of ... [books] ...
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Nathaniel's Nutmeg
Author: Giles Milton
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466873477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
A true tale of high adventure in the South Seas. The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the Indonesian archipelago. Just two miles long and half a mile wide, it is remote, tranquil, and, these days, largely ignored. Yet 370 years ago, Run's harvest of nutmeg (a pound of which yielded a 3,200 percent profit by the time it arrived in England) turned it into the most lucrative of the Spice Islands, precipitating a battle between the all-powerful Dutch East India Company and the British Crown. The outcome of the fighting was one of the most spectacular deals in history: Britain ceded Run to Holland but in return was given Manhattan. This led not only to the birth of New York but also to the beginning of the British Empire. Such a deal was due to the persistence of one man. Nathaniel Courthope and his small band of adventurers were sent to Run in October 1616, and for four years held off the massive Dutch navy. Nathaniel's Nutmeg centers on the remarkable showdown between Courthope and the Dutch Governor General Jan Coen, and the brutal fate of the mariners racing to Run--and the other corners of the globe--to reap the huge profits of the spice trade. Written with the flair of a historical sea novel but based on rigorous research, Giles Milton's Nathaniel's Nutmeg is a brilliant adventure story by Giles Milton, a writer who has been hailed as the "new Bruce Chatwin" (Mail on Sunday).
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466873477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
A true tale of high adventure in the South Seas. The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the Indonesian archipelago. Just two miles long and half a mile wide, it is remote, tranquil, and, these days, largely ignored. Yet 370 years ago, Run's harvest of nutmeg (a pound of which yielded a 3,200 percent profit by the time it arrived in England) turned it into the most lucrative of the Spice Islands, precipitating a battle between the all-powerful Dutch East India Company and the British Crown. The outcome of the fighting was one of the most spectacular deals in history: Britain ceded Run to Holland but in return was given Manhattan. This led not only to the birth of New York but also to the beginning of the British Empire. Such a deal was due to the persistence of one man. Nathaniel Courthope and his small band of adventurers were sent to Run in October 1616, and for four years held off the massive Dutch navy. Nathaniel's Nutmeg centers on the remarkable showdown between Courthope and the Dutch Governor General Jan Coen, and the brutal fate of the mariners racing to Run--and the other corners of the globe--to reap the huge profits of the spice trade. Written with the flair of a historical sea novel but based on rigorous research, Giles Milton's Nathaniel's Nutmeg is a brilliant adventure story by Giles Milton, a writer who has been hailed as the "new Bruce Chatwin" (Mail on Sunday).