A comprehensive study of the business community in a pre-industrial economy.

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Here is an invaluable, user-friendly and compact compendium packed with facts and figures on the seventeenth century – one of the most tumultuous and complex

This book describes how the mercantile system was made to work as London established itself as the capital of the Atlantic empire.

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