Title Merchants : the community that shaped England's trade and empire, 1550-1650 / Edmond Smith

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021] ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (x, 361 pages) : illustrations Series Yale scholarship online Contents Introduction : In the footsteps of William Turner -- The art of merchandising -- Many bodies corporate -- Living together, working together -- Monopolists and interlopers -- The City and the Court -- Conclusion : The business of empire Summary 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."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Edmond Smith is a Presidential Fellow in Economic Cultures at the University of Manchester. Formerly a capital markets research manager, Smith now specializes in the histories of capitalism and globalization, having completed his PhD at Cambridge in 2016 Description based on print version record In Books at JSTOR JSTOR Subject Merchants -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century Merchants -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714). Commerce Merchants SUBJECT Great Britain -- Commerce -- History -- 16th century Great Britain -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century Subject Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780300264494 0300264496

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