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  title info:
    title: London's triumph
    sub title: merchants, adventurers, and money in Shakespeare's city
  name:
    name part: Alford, Stephen
    name part: 1970-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    edition: First U.S. edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xx, 316 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: The dramatic story of the dazzling growth of London in the sixteenth century. For most, England in the sixteenth century was the era of the Tudors, from Henry VII and VIII to Elizabeth I. But as their dramas played out at court, England was being transformed economically by the astonishing discoveries of the New World and of direct sea routes to Asia. At the start of the century, England was hardly involved in the wider world and London remained a gloomy, introverted medieval city. But as the century progressed, something extraordinary happened that placed London at the center of the world stage forever. Stephen Alford's evocative, original new book uses the same skills that made his widely praised The Watchers so successful, bringing to life the network of merchants, visionaries, crooks and sailors who changed London and England forever. In a sudden explosion of energy, English ships were found all over the world, trading with Russia and the Levant, exploring Virginia and the Arctic and fanning out across the Indian Ocean. The people who made this possible, the families, the guild members, the moneymen who were willing to risk huge sums and sometimes their own lives in pursuit of the rare, exotic and desirable, are as interesting as any of those at court. Their ambitions fueled a new view of the world, initiating a long era of trade and empire, the consequences of which still resonate today.
  table of contents: A merchant's world -- Londoners -- Landmarks -- In Antwerp's shadow -- "Love, serve, and obey" -- Searching for Cathay -- A Russian embassy -- The brothers Isham -- "So fair a bourse in London" -- Aliens and strangers -- "Travails, pains, and dangers" -- Flourishing lands -- The unknown limits -- Master Lok's disgrace -- Shylock's victory -- St Bartholomew the Less -- Change and nostalgia -- To the East Indies -- Virginia richly valued -- Time past, time present.
  note: Stephen Alford.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Company of Merchant Adventurers of England.
  subject:
    topic: Merchants
    geographic: England
    geographic: London
    topic: History
    temporal: 16th century
  subject:
    geographic: London (England)
    topic: Commerce
    topic: History
    temporal: 16th century
  subject:
    geographic: London (England)
    topic: Civilization
    temporal: 16th century
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Renaissance
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General
  classification: HF3520.L65 A44 2017
  classification: 382.09421
  identifier: 9781620408216
  identifier: 162040821X
  identifier: 9781620408230
  record info:
    record content source: PNX
    record creation date: 171120
    record change date: 20180430160652.0
    record identifier: in00003958208