The Politics of Trade: The Overseas Merchant in State and Society, 1660-1720
Perry Gauci
Abstract
This book examines the political and social impact of the English overseas merchant during this key era of state development. Historians have increasingly recognized the significance of this period as one of commercial and political transition, but relatively little thought has been given to the perspective of the overseas traders, whose activities transcended these dynamic arenas. Analysis of the role of merchants in public life highlights their important contribution to England's rise as a commercial power of the first rank, and illuminates the fundamental political changes of the time. Case ... More
Keywords: overseas traders, merchants, London, Liverpool, York, mercantile politics, the press, Parliament, merchant class, landed gentry
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2001 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199241934 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199241934.001.0001 |
