Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550-1653Merchants 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. |
Contents
and the Redistribution of Wealth and Power 15501640 | 51 |
Development | 92 |
The Rise of Merchant Opposition in the 1620s | 199 |
The Merchant Community the Caroline Regime and | 240 |
REVOLUTION 16421653 | 393 |
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