William A. Pettigrew (Professor of History, Professor of History, L

Global Trade and the Shaping of English Freedom

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Produktbeschreibung

Through the histories of English trading companies -- the Levant Company, the East India Company, and the Royal African Company -- this book shows how non-European peoples in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, West Africa, and Western India used their control over these companies to shape the emergence of English freedom.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 163mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780198846710
• ISBN-10: 0198846711
• Artikelnr.: 68506021

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