TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Fellowship and freedom : the merchant adventurers and the restructuring of English commerce, 1582-1700
A1  - Leng, Thomas, kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5450942
AB  - "This is the first modern study of the Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers- sixteenth-century England's premier trading company- in its final century of existence as a privileged organisation. Over this period the Company's main trade, the export of cloth to northwest Europe, was overshadowed by rising traffic with the wider world, whilst its privileges were continually criticised in an era of political revolution. But the Company and its membership were not passive victims of these changes; rather, they were active participants in the commercial and political dramas of the century. Using thousands of neglected private merchant papers, the book views the Company from the perspective of its members, in the process bringing to life the complex social worlds of early modern merchants. It addresses the challenge of maintaining corporate unity in the face of internal disagreements and external attacks. It restores the centrality of the Merchant Adventurers within three important historical narratives: England's transition from the margins to the centre of the European, and later global, economy; the rise and fall of the merchant corporation as a major form of commercial government in premodern Europe; and the political history of the corporation in an era of state formation and revolution"--
SN  - 978-0-19-879447-9 sidottu
KW  - Company of Merchant Adventurers of England : History.
KW  - Company of Merchant Adventurers of England.
KW  - 1500-1699
KW  - Commerce.
KW  - England : Commerce : History : 16th century.
KW  - England : Commerce : History : 17th century.
KW  - England.
ER  -