This book shows how England's conquest of Mediterranean trade proved to be the first step in building its future economic and commercial hegemony, and how Italy

A new history of English trade and empire—revealing how a tightly woven community of merchants was the true origin of globalized Britain In the century follow

A major reinterpretation of the transformation of English commerce in the century after 1550.

The period from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century—the so-called long eighteenth century of English history—was a time of profound global

Merchant colonies were a significant factor for economic growth in Europe during the early modern period. The essays in this collection look at merchant colonie