Merchants and Revolution Commercial Change,

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.

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.

List of Tables and Map

ix

Preface

xi

Acknowledgments

xv

List of Abbreviations

xix

PART ONE THE TRANSFORMATION OF ENGLISH COMMERCE AND OF THE LONDON MERCHANT COMMUNITY, 1550-1650

I The Dynamics of Commercial Development, 1550-1640: A Reinterpretation

3

(48)

II Government Privileges, the Formation of Merchant Groups, and the Redistribution of Wealth and Power, 1550-1640

51

(41)

III The Company Merchants and American Colonial Development

92

(21)

IV The New-Merchant Leadership of the Colonial Trades

113

(86)

PART TWO THE EMERGENCE OF POLITICAL CONFLICT, 1620-1642

V The Rise of Merchant Opposition in the 1620's

199

(41)

VI The Merchant Community, the Caroline Regime, and the Aristocratic Opposition

240

(76)

VII Merchants and Revolution

316

(77)

PART THREE RADICALIZATION, REACTION, AND REVOLUTION, 1642-1653

VIII The Radicals' Offensive, 1642-1643

393

(67)

IX Political Presbyterianism

460

(34)

X The New Merchants Come to Power

494

(64)

XI Political Independents, New Merchants, and the Common wealth

558

(19)

XII The New Merchants and Commercial Policy under the Commonwealth

577

(56)

XIII The New Merchants and the Fall of the Commonwealth

633

(5)

Postscript

638

(79)

Index

717

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

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