This book offers a new account of the connections between
seventeenth century English history and the history of the rest of
the world. Eschewing nationalist narratives, it demonstrates how
greater engagement with the world beyond Europe shaped signature
aspects of the English experience. Early modern trading
corporations are the central actors in the story. Global Trade and
the Shaping of English Freedom offers a profoundly altered reading
of the practices of these entities. The companies were not
monolithic entities pursuing narrow nationalist interests overseas.
Nor were they inefficient monopolies doomed to commercial failure.
In the seventeenth century, as this book shows, they were driven
and transformed by the immediate and local interests of Company
agents and their foreign networks. Because the trading companies
were the most important bridge between international contexts and
English legal and political debates, they connect non-European
power and preference to those debates. These unappreciated actors
within the corporate sphere play leading roles in this book as the
shapers of English debate about the meaning of English freedom and
the futures of the trades they participated in overseas. The book
offers a new perspective on the foreign actors who shaped English
commercial and legal ideas and practices in the seventeenth
century, as well as the Ottoman, Bantenese, Huedan, Siamese, and
Mughal contributions to the ideological, institutional, and
procedural underpinnings that would develop, slowly but surely,
into the British Empire.
General
| Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
November 2023 |
| Authors: |
William A. Pettigrew
(Professor of History)
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
224 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-884671-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-19-884671-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780198846710 |
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