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Around 1600, the Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers was England's most important trading company. This history shows how, as the broader trading landscape changed, the Company declined, but also looks at the members of the Company as active participants in the changes to the social, commercial, and political landscape.
List of contents
- Introduction: The Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers After Antwerp
- Part I
- 1: Becoming a Merchant Adventurer
- 2: Show Days: The Government of Trade
- 3: Running on the Exchange
- 4: Disorderly Brethren?: Merchant Adventurers and the Company
- Part II
- 5: The odious name of a monopolist : From the Imperial Mandate of 1597 to the 1604 Free Trade Bill
- 6: A new and extraordinary service to be done to the state and Comonwealth of England : The Merchant Adventurers and the Cokayne Project
- 7: A new spirit of dissention and disturbance : Religious and Political Divisions, c.1630-60
- 8: That Trade which their Charter reaches not : Contesting the Company from the Restoration to the Glorious Revolution
- Conclusion: Merchant Adventurers in an Age of Commercial Revolution
About the author
Thomas Leng has worked in the History Department at The University of Sheffield since 2005. His first book, Benjamin Worsley (1618-1677): Trade, Interest, and the Spirit in Revolutionary England (Royal Historical Society Studies in History, 2008), provoked his interest in the social and institutional history of the trading company known as the Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers. He has also published on early modern economic thought, colonization, and the politics of civil war England.
Summary
Around 1600, the Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers was England's most important trading company. This history shows how, as the broader trading landscape changed, the Company declined, but also looks at the members of the Company as active participants in the changes to the social, commercial, and political landscape.
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This well-researched and clearly-written book will provide readers with an exciting new understanding of an important institution of ealy modern English trade.
