The Politics of Trade: The Overseas Merchant in State and Society 1660-1720

ISBN-13: 9780199241934 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 320 str.

Perry Gauci

Opis

This book examines the political and social impact of English overseas merchants during the upheavals of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It explores the merchant societies of London, York, and Liverpool, and illuminates the growing prominence of the overseas trader in the press and in Parliament.

Recenzje

This scholarly and effective study makes an important contribution to our understanding of the development of public politics in Britain.