Mastering the Worst of Trades : England’s Early Africa Companies and Their Traders, 1618–1672
by Julie M. Svalastog
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9004440828 | 282 Pages | True PDF | 21.7 MB
by Julie M. Svalastog
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9004440828 | 282 Pages | True PDF | 21.7 MB
An account of the emergence of Englands earliest chartered Africa companies and their traders. It questions the interaction between company and private interests and their mutual impact on the emerging Atlantic of the seventeenth century and beyond.
Julie M. Svalastog completed her Ph.D. as researcher in the ERC funded project Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empires 1500-1750 based at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Her work there focused on the early modern English expansion.