Global Trade and the Shaping of English Freedom

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William A. Pettigrew (Professor of History, Professor of History, Lancaster University)

Global Trade and the Shaping of English Freedom

William A. Pettigrew (Professor of History, Professor of History, Lancaster University)

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English

Oxford University Press
25 January 2024

British & Irish history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Colonialism & imperialism; Economic history

This book offers a new account of the connections between seventeenth century English history and the history of the rest of the world. Eschewing nationalist narratives, it demonstrates how greater engagement with the world beyond Europe shaped signature aspects of the English experience. Early modern trading corporations are the central actors in the story. Global Trade and the Shaping of English Freedom offers a profoundly altered reading of the practices of these entities. The companies were not monolithic entities pursuing narrow nationalist interests overseas. Nor were they inefficient monopolies doomed to commercial failure. In the seventeenth century, as this book shows, they were driven and transformed by the immediate and local interests of Company agents and their foreign networks. Because the trading companies were the most important bridge between international contexts and English legal and political debates, they connect non-European power and preference to those debates. These unappreciated actors within the corporate sphere play leading roles in this book as the shapers of English debate about the meaning of English freedom and the futures of the trades they participated in overseas. The book offers a new perspective on the foreign actors who shaped English commercial and legal ideas and practices in the seventeenth century, as well as the Ottoman, Bantenese, Huedan, Siamese, and Mughal contributions to the ideological, institutional, and procedural underpinnings that would develop, slowly but surely, into the British Empire.

By: William A. Pettigrew (Professor of History Professor of History Lancaster University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198846710
ISBN 10: 0198846711
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 25 January 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.