Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550-1653

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.

Author: Robert Brenner
Publisher: Verso
Published: 08/17/2003
Pages: 756
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.44lbs
Size: 8.99h x 5.97w x 2.02d
ISBN13: 9781859843338
ISBN10: 1859843336
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | Great Britain | General
- Business & Economics | Economic History
- Business & Economics | Commerce

About the Author
Robert Brenner is Director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA. He is the author of The Boom and the Bubble, Merchants and Revolution, The Economics of Global Turbulence and co-editor of Rebel Rank and File.