Author: Ludovicus RobertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
The Marchants Mapp of Commerce
Author: Ludovicus RobertsThe Marchants Mapp of Commerce
Author: Lewes RobertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Merchants
Author: Edmond SmithPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300264496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
A new history of English trade and empire—revealing how a tightly woven community of merchants was the true origin of globalized Britain In the century following Elizabeth I’s rise to the throne, English trade blossomed as thousands of merchants launched ventures across the globe. Through the efforts of these "mere merchants," England developed from a peripheral power on the fringes of Europe to a country at the center of a global commercial web, with interests stretching from Virginia to Ahmadabad and Arkhangelsk to Benin. Edmond Smith traces the lives of English merchants from their earliest steps into business to the heights of their successes. Smith unpicks their behavior, relationships, and experiences, from exporting wool to Russia, importing exotic luxuries from India, and building plantations in America. He reveals that the origins of "global" Britain are found in the stories of these men whose livelihoods depended on their skills, entrepreneurship, and ability to work together to compete in cutthroat international markets. As a community, their efforts would come to revolutionize Britain’s relationship with the world.
The Rhetoric of Credit
Author: Ceri SullivanPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838639269
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
"Recent influential work on Jacobean city comedies, by Jean-Christophe Agnew and Douglas Bruster in particular, is confined to the well-worn topics of urban alienation and the avaricious merchant, drawing on 1550s sermons and tracts against usury. In this model, where social credit is deemed to circulate without limit, the city comedy's specific reference to contemporary ideas of trade, cash, and credit is lost. The plays are reduced to moral satires against greed, humoural comedies of the hollow self, or self-referencing literary artifacts which create and interact with a coterie audience. Aging rants against avarice might account for earlier interludes which mock usurers and misers, but not for the slick, formal pleasures of the city comedy, bringing together gull, courtesan, prodigal gallant, virgin daughter, and jealous citizen father or husband."--BOOK JACKET.
Global Traffic
Author: B. SebekPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230611818
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This remarkable collection investigates the relations between literature and the economy in the context of the unprecedented expansion of early modern England s long distance trade. Studying a range of genres and writers, both familiar and lesser known, the essays offer a new history of globalization as a complex of unevenly developing cultural, discursive, and economic phenomena. While focusing on how long distance trade contributed to England s economic growth and cultural transformation, the collection taps into scholarly interest in race, gender, travel and exploration, domesticity, mapping, the state and emergent nationalism, and proto-colonialism in the early modern period.
Publications of the American Economic Association
Author: American Economic AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
American Economic Association Quarterly
Author: American Economic AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Old Decorative Maps and Charts
Author: Arthur Lee HumphreysPublisher: London : Halton & Truscott Smith
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Catalogue of the Famous Library of Printed Books, Illuminated Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Engravings
Author: Henry HuthCatalogue of the American Philosophical Society Library
Author: American Philosophical Society. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description