Fellowship and freedom : the merchant adventurers and the restructuring of English commerce, 1582-1700 /

Around 1600, the Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers was England's most important trading company. This history shows how, as the broader trading landscape changed, the Company declined, but also looks at the members of the Company as active participants in the changes to the social, commercial,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Leng, Thomas (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Company of Merchant Adventurers of England > History. Company of Merchant Adventurers of England England > Commerce > History > 16th century. England > Commerce > History > 17th century. Angleterre > Commerce > Histoire > 16e siècle. Angleterre > Commerce > Histoire > 17e siècle. Economic History. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS. HISTORY. Social History. Commerce England 1500-1699 Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers after Antwerp
1. Becoming a Merchant Adventurer
2. Show Days: The Government of Trade
3. Running on the Exchange
4. Disorderly Brethren? Merchant Adventurers and the Company
5. 'The odious name of a monopolist': From the Imperial Mandate of 1597 to the 1604 Free Trade Bill
6. 'A new & extraordinary service to be done to the state and Comonwealth of England': The Merchant Adventurers and the Cokayne Project
7. 'A new spirit of dissention and disturbance': Religious and Political Divisions, c.1630-60
8. 'That Trade which their Charter reaches not': Contesting the Company from the Restoration to the Glorious Revolution
Conclusion: Merchant Adventurers in an Age of Commercial Revolution.