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The Blackwells as radicals, merchants, financiers and administrators illustrate the importance of kinship, the development of the early modern state in London and the ownership of the memory of the civil wars across a century of wars and revolutions.
List of contents
Introduction / PART 1:1594-1660 / Puritan Activists, 1594-1642 / War, 1642-1646 / Revolution, 1646-1649 / Administrator and Politician, 1645-1660 / Speculators and Agents, 1646-1660 / PART 2:1660-1691 / Survival and new opportunities, 1660-1672 / Kin and Brokerage, 1647-1693 / Blackwell in America: Massachusetts, 1684-1688 / Blackwell in America: Pennsylvania, 1688-1690 / PART 3:1691-1727 / Blackwell and Lambert Blackwell: London and Italy, 1672-1701 / Lambert Blackwell in Italy: Merchant, Consul and Envoy, 1684-1705 / Lambert Blackwell in Italy: representative of the English state at war, 1690-1705 / Lambert Blackwell: Financier, MP and landed elite, 1705-1720 / Lambert Blackwell and the South Sea Bubble, 1711-1727 / Conclusion
About the author
David Farr is Deputy Head Academic of Norwich School. He is author of full-length studies of the Cromwellian military-religious figures, John Lambert, Henry Ireton, Thomas Harrison and Hezekiah Haynes and the failure of
Oliver Cromwell's Godly Revolution, 1594-1704 (2020).
Summary
The Blackwells as radicals, merchants, financiers and administrators illustrate the importance of kinship, the development of the early modern state in London and the ownership of the memory of the civil wars across a century of wars and revolutions.
