Global traffic : discourses and practices of trade in English literature and culture from 1550 to 1700 /

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Other Authors: Sebek, Barbara, 1964-, Deng, Stephen, 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Early modern cultural studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • "The common market of all the world" : English theater, the global system, and the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period / Daniel Vitkus
  • "Ill luck, ill luck?" : risk and hazard in The merchant of Venice / Ian MacInnes
  • Salvation, social struggle, and the ideology of the company merchant : Baptist Goodall's The tryall of travell (1630) / David J. Morrow
  • The panoramic view in mercantile thought : or, A merchant's map of Cymbeline / Bradley D. Ryner
  • "Not every man has the luck to go to Corinth" : accruing exotic capital in The Jew of Malta and Volpone / Lea Knudsen Allen
  • "Absent, weak, or unserviceable" : the East India Company and the domestic economy in The launching of the Mary, or, The seaman's honest wife / Ann Christensen
  • The flowers of Paradise : botanical trade in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England / Amy L. Tigner
  • Inhaling the alien : race and tobacco in early modern England / Kristen G. Brookes
  • "A foreigner by birth" : the life of Indian cloth in the early modern English marketplace / Gitanjali Shahani
  • The tempest and the Newfoundland cod fishery / Edward M. Test
  • "Mysteries of commerce" : influence, licensing, censorship, and the literature of long-distance travel / Matthew Day
  • Global Ĺ“conomy : Ben Jonson's The staple of news and the ethics of mercantilism / Stephen Deng
  • Afterword : accommodating change / Jean E. Howard.