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Article: Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550-1653.
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- December 22, 1994
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This complex book includes at least three important contributions to an understanding of the many changes England experienced in the seventeenth century. First, it describes the commercial changes which created a new group of merchants separate from those who controlled the chartered companies which dominated English trade in the early century. Second, it describes the involvement of various economic, religious, and social groups in the politics of the revolution. Third, it presents a comprehensive interpretation of the economic and political changes of the seventeenth century.
The first section of the book describes the commercial changes which created the new ...