William A. Pettigrew

Global Trade and the Shaping of English Freedom (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a new account of the connections between seventeenth century English history and the history of the rest of the world. Eschewing nationalist narratives, it demonstrates how greater engagement with the world beyond Europe shaped signature aspects of the English experience. Early modern trading corporations are the central actors in the story. Global Trade and the Shaping of English Freedom offers a profoundly altered reading of the practices of these entities. The companies were not monolithic entities pursuing narrow nationalist interests overseas. Nor were they inefficient monopolies doomed to commercial failure. In the seventeenth century, as this book shows, they were driven and transformed by the immediate and local interests of Company agents and their foreign networks. Because the trading companies were the most important bridge between international contexts and English legal and political debates, they connect non-European power and preference to those debates. These unappreciated actors within the corporate sphere play leading roles in this book as the shapers of English debate about the meaning of English freedom and the futures of the trades they participated in overseas. The book offers a new perspective on the foreign actors who shaped English commercial and legal ideas and practices in the seventeenth century, as well as the Ottoman, Bantenese, Huedan, Siamese, and Mughal contributions to the ideological, institutional, and procedural underpinnings that would develop, slowly but surely, into the British Empire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192585912
• Artikelnr.: 69168230

Autorenporträt

William A. Pettigrew was educated at Oxford and Yale. He was a Junior Research Fellow and Tutor in History at Corpus Christ College, Oxford before taking up a permanent post at the University of Kent in 2009. He was appointed to a personal Chair at Lancaster in 2018.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction: Trading Corporations
Cross-Cultural Alliances in Global Settings
and the Meanings of English Freedom * 2: Smyrna
Venice
and the Rise of Statute in Trade Regulation
1619-1647 * 3: Abu al-Mafakhir Mahmud Abdulkadir
the Skinner brothers
and the Constitutional Right to Free Trade
1650-1668 * 4: Prince Bibe of Ouidah and the Freeing of the English Slave Trade
1679-1694 * 5: King Nrai of Siam and the Redefinition of English Subjecthood
1678 - 1698 * 6: Itimad Khan and the Statute to Suppress Piracy
1694-1700 * 7: Conclusion: Free to Dominate