Merchants and Revolution
Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550-1653
Published on 5. May 2020
754 pages
978-1-78960-885-4 (ISBN)
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.
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Ebook UK & RoW
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-78960-885-4 (9781789608854)
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Robert Brenner
Merchants and Revolution
Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550-1653
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Person
Robert Brenner is Director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA. He is the author of The Boom and the Bubble, Merchants and Revolution, and co-editor of Rebel Rank and File.
Content
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Tables and Map
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part One: The Transformation of English Commerce and of the London Merchant Community, 1550-1650
- I. The Dynamics of Commercial Development, 1550-1640: A Reinterpretation
- II. Government Privileges, the Formation of Merchant Groups, and the Redistribution of Wealth and Power, 1550-1640
- III. The Company Merchants and American Colonial Development
- IV. The New-Merchant Leadership of the Colonial Trades
- Part Two: The Emergence of Political Conflict, 1620-1642
- V. The Rise of Merchant Opposition in the 1620s
- VI. The Merchant Community, the Caroline Regime, and the Aristocratic Opposition
- VII. Merchants and Revolution
- Part Three: Radicalization, Reaction, and Revolution, 1642-1653
- VIII. The Radicals' Offensive, 1642-1643
- IX. Political Presbyterianism
- X. The New Merchants Come to Power
- XI. Political Independents, New Merchants, and the Commonwealth
- XII. The New Merchants and Commercial Policy under the Commonwealth
- XIII. The New Merchants and the Fall of the Commonwealth
- Postscript
- Notes
- Index
