English Overseas Trade, 1500-1700
Author : Ralph Davis
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 23,1 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Ralph Davis
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 23,1 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Richard Stone
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 19,24 MB
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1837650535
Analyses data from the Bristol Port Books to rewrite the history of trade in Bristol, including the city's early involvement with the slave trade. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a transformative period for global commerce, with the principal focus of England's trade shifting away from trade with Europe, primarily in woollen cloth, to a new Atlantic system, with trade in a diverse range of commodities. Based on the fantastically detailed Bristol Port Books, previously thought impenetrable, and using new computer technology to analyse the vast amount of data, this book provides the first long duration history of a major Atlantic port in this period. It rewrites the history of Bristol's trade, overturning much established thinking, for example showing that trade flourished in the late Tudor and early Stuart period, demonstrating that Bristol was involved in the slave trade much earlier than was previously thought and charting the growth of commerce with North America and the Caribbean from nothing to three quarters of Bristol's imports in the short period from the 1630s to the 1650s. Overall, the book represents a major contribution to understanding how the Atlantic economy worked and how it developed in this crucial period.
Author : John Chartres
Publisher : Springer
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 39,92 MB
Release : 1977-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1349026158
Author : L. H. Roper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1107118913
This book explores seventeenth-century English overseas expansion, offering a unique interpretation of the history of the early modern English Empire.
Author : Thomas M. Truxes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0300161301
A sweeping history of early American trade and the foundation of the American economy In a single, readily digestible, coherent narrative, historian Thomas M. Truxes presents the three hundred–year history of the overseas trade of British America. Born from seeds planted in Tudor England in the sixteenth century, Atlantic trade allowed the initial survival, economic expansion, and later prosperity of British America, and brought vastly different geographical regions, each with a distinctive identity and economic structure, into a single fabric. Truxes shows how colonial American prosperity was only possible because of the labor of enslaved Africans, how the colonial economy became dependent on free and open markets, and how the young United States owed its survival in the struggle of the American Revolution to Atlantic trade.
Author : Francis Sheppard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 27,41 MB
Release : 2000
Category : London (England)
ISBN : 9780192853691
London has for most of 2000 years been the hub of the political, economic, and cultural life of the British Isles. No other city has held such a dominant national position for so long. This new study, by the doyen of London historians, describes London's diverse past, from its origins as aRoman settlement at the first bridging of the Thames to the world-class metropolis it is today. It provides a vivid account of a city which was the 'deere sweete' place which Chaucer loved more than any other city on earth, which was for Dickens his 'magic lantern', and to Keats 'a great sea',howling for more wrecks. It is also a story of much contrast and remarkable resilience; through great fires and pestilence, civil war, and the Blitz, London has rebuilt and reinvented itself for each generation.
Author : Barry Coward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1317864263
The Stuart Age provides an accessible introduction to many major themes of the period including: the causes of the English Civil War, the nature of the English Revolution; the aims and achievements of Oliver Cromwell; the continuation of religious passion in the politics of Restoration England; and the impact on Britain of the Glorious Revolution. In it Coward also covers the relevant history of Scotland and Ireland and gives comprehensive treatment of economic, social, intellectual, as well as political and religious history.
Author : David Baker
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 21,5 MB
Release : 2009-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804772908
In early modern England, while moralists railed against the theater as wasteful and depraved and inflation whittled away at the value of wages, people attended the theater in droves. On Demand draws on recent economic history and theory to account for this puzzling consumer behavior. He shows that during this period demand itself, with its massed acquisitive energies, transformed the English economy. Over the long sixteenth-century consumption burgeoned, though justifications for it lagged behind. People were in a curious predicament: they practiced consumption on a mass scale but had few acceptable reasons for doing so. In the literary marketplace, authors became adept at accommodating such contradictions fashioning works that spoke to self-divided consumers: Thomas Nashe castigated and satiated them at the same time . William Shakespeare satirized credit problems. Ben Jonson investigated the problems of global trade, and Robert Burton enlisted readers in a project of economic betterment.
Author : Linda Levy Peck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 45,91 MB
Release : 2005-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521842327
A fascinating study of the ways in which consumption transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth-century England. It reveals for the first time the emergence of consumer society in seventeenth-century England.
Author : Laurence Publicover
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 29,81 MB
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192529730
Focusing on early modern plays which stage encounters between peoples of different cultures, this book asks how a sense of geographical location was created in early modern theatres that featured minimal scenery. While previous studies have stressed these plays' connections to a historical Mediterranean in which England was increasingly involved, this volume demonstrates how their dramatic geography was shaped through a literary and theatrical heritage. Reading canonical plays including The Merchant of Venice, The Jew of Malta, and The Tempest alongside lesser-known dramas such as Soliman and Perseda, Guy of Warwick, and The Travels of the Three English Brothers, Dramatic Geography illustrates how early modern dramatists staging foreign worlds drew upon a romance tradition dating back to the medieval period, and how they responded to one another's plays to create an 'intertheatrical geography'. These strategies shape the plays' wider meanings in important ways, and could only have operated within the theatrical environment peculiar to early modern London: one in which playwrights worked in close proximity, in one instance perhaps even living together while composing Mediterranean dramas, and one where they could expect audiences to respond to subtle generic and intertextual negotiations. In reassessing this group of plays, Laurence Publicover brings into conversation scholarship on theatre history, cultural encounter, and literary geography; the book also contributes to current debates in early modern studies regarding the nature of dramatic authorship, the relationship between genre and history, and the continuities that run between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries.