This book shows how England's conquest of Mediterranean trade proved to be the first step in building her future economic and commercial hegemony, and how Italy lay at the heart of that process. In her extensive use of English and Italian archival sources, the author looks well beyond Braudel's influential picture of a Spanish-dominated Mediterranean world. In doing so she demonstrates some of the causes of Italy's decline and its subsequent relegation as a dominant force in world trade.
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"...moderately advanced students as well as specialists in economic history will find in English Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Italy a useful compendium of data and an often though-provoking case study in that remarkable amplification of English commerical range and power which laid the basis for Britain's later global pre-eminence." Geoffrey Clark, Canadian Journal of History
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Original Language: Italian
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In a dispatch written to the Doge and Senate in Venice on 28 September 1605, Nicolo Molin regretted the passing of the time when foreign merchants had been welcomed into England while those native merchants who traded abroad were few and far between; now it was almost exclusively the English who dedicated themselves to foreign trade, gradually extending their control over the entire commercial network and all its opportunities for profit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
defensible ships, storico livornese, organzine silk, trade hegemony, thrown silk, mercantile colony, provincial ports, average tonnage, merchants resident, silk yarn Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Grand Duke, Levant Company, Secretary of State, East India Company, Far East, Sir John Banks, The Economic History Review, Merchant Adventurers, Second Dutch War, Pagano de Divitiis, Straits of Gibraltar, Thomas Dethick, Thomas Mun, George Davies, North African, Straits of Messina, Blackwell Hall, Sir John Finch, Charles Chellingworth, Morgan Read, New World, Seventeenth-century Exeter, Sir Jeremy Smith, Turkey Company, Gascoigne of Livorno New!
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In a dispatch written to the Doge and Senate in Venice on 28 September 1605, Nicolo Molin regretted the passing of the time when foreign merchants had been welcomed into England while those native merchants who traded abroad were few and far between; now it was almost exclusively the English who dedicated themselves to foreign trade, gradually extending their control over the entire commercial network and all its opportunities for profit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
defensible ships, storico livornese, organzine silk, trade hegemony, thrown silk, mercantile colony, provincial ports, average tonnage, merchants resident, silk yarn Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Grand Duke, Levant Company, Secretary of State, East India Company, Far East, Sir John Banks, The Economic History Review, Merchant Adventurers, Second Dutch War, Pagano de Divitiis, Straits of Gibraltar, Thomas Dethick, Thomas Mun, George Davies, North African, Straits of Messina, Blackwell Hall, Sir John Finch, Charles Chellingworth, Morgan Read, New World, Seventeenth-century Exeter, Sir Jeremy Smith, Turkey Company, Gascoigne of Livorno New!
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- French Revolution by Robert Lacey in Back Matter
- Towns in Societies: Essays in Economic History and Historical Sociology (Past and Present Publications) by Philip Abrams in Back Matter
- North Africa (Exploration of Africa) by John G. Hall on page 57
- The Impact of the English Civil War on the Economy of London, 1642-50 by Ben Coates on page 13, and page 197
- Naples in the Eighteenth Century: The Birth and Death of a Nation State (Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture) by Girolamo Imbruglia in Back Matter
- Travel Knowledge: European "Discoveries" in the Early Modern Period by Ivo Kamps on page 50
- The Culture of Capital: Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England by Henry Turner on page 46
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