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English Trade and Adventure to Russia in the Early Modern Era - The Muscovy Company, 1603-1649 (Paperback)
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English Trade and Adventure to Russia in the Early Modern Era - The Muscovy Company, 1603-1649 (Paperback)
Series: Empires and Entanglements in the Early Modern World
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In English Trade and Adventure to Russia in the Early Modern Era,
Maria Salomon Arel revisits Anglo-Russian trade in first half of
the seventeenth century. Drawing on largely neglected Russian and
English sources, she reconstructs the history of the Muscovy
Company in a period of expanding opportunities for foreigners in
Russia and of tightening links between regional markets across the
globe. In her strongly revisionist telling, the Company
successfully rebuilt in the aftermath of the devastating Time of
Troubles, securing its uniquely privileged position in the Russian
market at the hands of a newly installed tsar and Romanov dynasty
keen to revive the country's decimated economy through the stimulus
of foreign trade. Meanwhile, on the London end of a trade clearly
deemed relevant to commercial and shipping interests increasingly
dependent on Russian naval stores and invested in the Russian
re-export trades to and from the Mediterranean and Asia, the
Company restructured its organization and finances with crucial
royal support in furtherance of the 'public good' and early Stuart
dynastic honor. As Arel documents, by the 1630s-40s, English trade
to Russia was flourishing, as seen in the growing number of Muscovy
Company men active all along the Moscow-Archangel route, their
substantial commercial infrastructure, extensive supply networks
among a broad swath of Russian merchants and traders, and prominent
role in the exploitation of monopoly trades established to fill the
tsar's coffers with specie. The picture drawn by Arel overturns a
traditional narrative on the Russia trade that has relegated the
English to the shadows, demonstrating the tenacity and continued
development of their enterprise at the intersection of English
commercial expansion, Russian economic growth, and advancing
globalization processes. Taking the narrative even further, the
book opens up new perspectives and research directions by pointing
to an incipient link between the Russian and transatlantic markets,
while shifting the lens on the Anglo-Dutch relationship in the
Russia trade away from the time-worn dichotomy of cutthroat
competition to a more nuanced understanding of mutual cooperation
and business association between merchants on the ground, even in
the face of commercial and territorial competition between nations.
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