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Merchants and Revolution examines the activities of London’s merchant community during the early Stuart period. Proposing a new understanding of long-term commercial change, Robert Brenner explains the factors behind the opening of long-distance commerce to the south and east, describing how the great City merchants wielded power to exploit emerging business opportunities, and he profiles the new colonial traders, who became the chief architects of the Commonwealth’s dynamic commercial policy.
/ AUS DEM INHALT: / / / PART ONE THE TRANSFORMATION OF ENGLISH COMMERCE AND OF THE LONDON MERCHANT COMMUNITY, 1550-1650
I The Dynamics of Commercial Development, 1550-1640: A Reinterpretation page 3
II Government Privileges, the Formation of Merchant Groups, and the Redistribution of Wealth and Power, 1550-1640 page 51
III The Company Merchants and American Colonial Development page 92
IV The New-Merchant Leadership of the Colonial Trades page 113
PART TWO THE EMERGENCE OF POLITICAL CONFLICT, 1620-1642
V The Rise of Merchant Opposition in the 1620s page 199
VI The Merchant Community, the Caroline Regime, and the Aristocratic Opposition page 240
VII Merchants and Revolution page 316
PART THREE RADICALIZATION, REACTION, AND REVOLUTION, 1642-1653
VIII The Radicals' Offensive, 1642-1643 page 393
IX Political Presbyterianism page 460
X The New Merchants Come to Power page 494
XI Political Independents, New Merchants, and the Commonwealth page 558
XII The New Merchants and Commercial Policy under the Commonwealth page 577
XIII The New Merchants and the Fall of the Commonwealth page 633
Postscript page 638