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London (Hardcover)
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London (Hardcover)
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If one had looked for a potential global city in Europe in the
1540s, the most likely candidate would have been Antwerp, which had
emerged as the center of the German and Spanish silver exchange as
well as the Portuguese spice and Spanish sugar trades. It almost
certainly would not have been London, an unassuming hub of the wool
and cloth trade with a population of around 75,000, still trying to
recover from the onslaught of the Black Plague. But by 1700
London's population had reached a staggering 575,000-and it had
developed its first global corporations, as well as relationships
with non-European societies outside the Mediterranean. What
happened in the span of a century and a half? And how exactly did
London transform itself into a global city? London's success,
Robert K. Batchelor argues, lies not just with the well-documented
rise of Atlantic settlements, markets, and economies. Using his
discovery of a network of Chinese merchant shipping routes on John
Selden's map of China as his jumping-off point, Batchelor reveals
how London also flourished because of its many encounters,
engagements, and exchanges with East Asian trading cities.
Translation plays a key role in Batchelor's study-translation not
just of books, manuscripts, and maps, but also of meaning and
knowledge across cultures - and Batchelor demonstrates how
translation helped London understand and adapt to global economic
conditions. Looking outward at London's global negotiations,
Batchelor traces the development of its knowledge networks back to
a number of foreign sources and credits particular interactions
with England's eventual political and economic autonomy from church
and king. London offers a much-needed non-Eurocentric history of
London, first by bringing to light and then by synthesizing the
many external factors and pieces of evidence that contributed to
its rise as a global city. It will appeal to students and scholars
interested in the cultural politics of translation, the
relationship between merchants and sovereigns, and the cultural and
historical geography of Britain and Asia.
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