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Zusatztext [a] welcome and informative study ... Dalton says the 'aim' of her 'book is to lift Roger Barlow from obscurity'. She has done so admirably and all students of the early history of the Atlantic world will benefit from her labours. Informationen zum Autor Heather Dalton's current research focusses on transnational relationships and family ties in fifteenth and sixteenth century Atlantic trading networks and voyages of discovery. She is a member of The Cabot Project at the University of Bristol and associated with the ARC Discovery Centre for the History of Emotions. Klappentext In the early sixteenth century, a young English sugar trader spent a night at what is now the port of Agadir in Morocco, watching from the tenuous safety of the Portuguese fort as the local tribesmen attacked the 'Moors'. Having recently departed the familiar environs of London and the Essex marshes, this was to be the first of several encounters Roger Barlow was to have with unfamiliar worlds. Barlow's family were linked to networks where the exchange of goods and ideas merged, and his contacts in Seville brought him into contact with the navigator, Sebastian Cabot. Merchants and Explorers follows Barlow and Cabot across the Atlantic to South America and back to Spain and Reformation England. Heather Dalton uses their lives as an effective narrative thread to explore the entangled Atlantic world during the first half of the sixteenth century. In doing so, she makes a critical contribution to the fields of both Atlantic and global history. Although it is generally accepted that the English were not significantly attracted to the Americas until the second half of the sixteenth century, Dalton demonstrates that Barlow, Cabot, and their cohorts had a knowledge of the world and its opportunities that was extraordinary for this period. She reveals how shared knowledge as well as the accumulation of capital in international trading networks prior to 1560 influenced emerging ideas of trade, 'discovery', settlement, and race in Britain. In doing so, Dalton not only provides a substantial new body of facts about trade and exploration, she explores the changing character of English commerce and society in the first half of the sixteenth century. Zusammenfassung Explores the sixteenth century Atlantic world through the travels of trader Roger Barlow and navigator Sebastian Cabot, revealing how these men understood their world, and how their shared knowledge and accumulation of capital in international trade influenced emerging ideas of trade, discovery, settlement, and race in Britain. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Images List of Abbreviations Introduction: Scenes of Atlantic Exchange 1: Roger Barlow's World: Community, Guild and Family 2: The Mediterranean Origins of an Atlantic Trading Network 3: Gateway to Wealth: the English Trading Community in Seville 4: Negotiating Fortune: Love, Death and Relationships 5: Sebastian Cabot and the Voyage for Spice 6: South America and the Exploration of the Rio de la Plata 7: Exile, Opportunism and Recovery 8: Return and Patronage: Bristol to Pembrokeshire 9: Surviving Change and Promoting Discovery 10: Controlling Trade and Consolidating Status 11: Networks of Atlantic Exchange 12: Roger Barlow, Robert Thorne and Hakluyt's Project 13: Lost Legacies and the Construction of Memory Glossary Bibliography Index ...
