London's Triumph. Merchants, adventurers and money in Shakespeare's city
Details:
- Author(s) Alford, Stephen
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2017
- Pages 336pp; illus
- Publisher Bloomsbury
- Place Published New York NY
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Scholarly work dealing with the rapid emergence in the 16th century of London as a leading international trading centre whose merchants and ships started to trade in all parts of the world - focuses on the 'the network of merchants, visionaries, crooks, and sailors who changed London and England forever'. Chapters include: 'A merchant's world; 'Londoners'; 'Landmarks'; 'In Antwerp's shadow'; "Love, serve, and obey"; 'Searching for Cathay'; 'A Russian embassy'; 'The brothers Isham'; "So fair a bourse in London"; 'Aliens and strangers'; "Travails, pains, and dangers"; 'Flourishing lands'; 'The unknown limits'; 'Master Lok's disgrace'; 'Shylock's victory'; 'St Bartholomew the Less'; 'Change and nostalgia'; 'To the East Indies'; 'Virginia richly valued'; 'Time past, time present'