English Merchants
Author: Henry Richard Fox Bourne
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 466
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Author: Henry Richard Fox Bourne
Publisher:
Published: 1866
Total Pages: 466
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bernard Bailyn
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2013-03-05
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1447489144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn detail Bailyn here presents the struggle of the merchants to achieve full social recognition as their successes in trade and in such industries as fishing and lumbering offered them avenues to power. Surveying the rise of merchant families, he offers a look in depth of the emergence of a new social group whose interests and changing social position powerfully affected the developing character of American society.
Author: Edmond Smith
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2021-09-14
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 0300264496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Author: Arthur Shelburn Williamson
Publisher:
Published: 1922
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Zachary Dorner
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020-07-15
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 022670680X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe period from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century—the so-called long eighteenth century of English history—was a time of profound global change, marked by the expansion of intercontinental empires, long-distance trade, and human enslavement. It was also the moment when medicines, previously produced locally and in small batches, became global products. As greater numbers of British subjects struggled to survive overseas, more medicines than ever were manufactured and exported to help them. Most historical accounts, however, obscure the medicine trade’s dependence on slave labor, plantation agriculture, and colonial warfare. In Merchants of Medicines, Zachary Dorner follows the earliest industrial pharmaceuticals from their manufacture in the United Kingdom, across trade routes, and to the edges of empire, telling a story of what medicines were, what they did, and what they meant. He brings to life business, medical, and government records to evoke a vibrant early modern world of London laboratories, Caribbean estates, South Asian factories, New England timber camps, and ships at sea. In these settings, medicines were produced, distributed, and consumed in new ways to help confront challenges of distance, labor, and authority in colonial territories. Merchants of Medicines offers a new history of economic and medical development across early America, Britain, and South Asia, revealing the unsettlingly close ties among medicine, finance, warfare, and slavery that changed people’s expectations of their health and their bodies.
Author: Henry Richard Fox Bourne
Publisher:
Published: 1866
Total Pages: 462
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edmond Smith
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2021-01-01
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 0300257953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWINNER OF THE 2023 RALPH GOMORY BOOK PRIZE "A superb book."--Jerry Brotton "Wonderfully wide-ranging and deeply-researched."--William Dalrymple "Sharply observed, innovatively analysed, and always accessible."--Nandini Das 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.
Author: L. M. E. Shaw
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe English-Portuguese alliance of 1654 lasted for 156 years. Interweaving politics, economics, religion and commerce to portray what life was like for English merchants in Portugal, this work is the result of many years of archival research.
Author: Robert Brenner
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2003-08-17
Total Pages: 768
ISBN-13: 9781859843338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major reinterpretation of the transformation of English commerce in the century after 1550.
Author: H. R. Fox Bourne
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2022-01-19
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 3752558679
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1866.