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Merchants - The Community That Shaped England's Trade and Empire, 1550-1650 (Hardcover)
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Merchants - The Community That Shaped England's Trade and Empire, 1550-1650 (Hardcover)
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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.
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