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Allen Press
London's Triumph
Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City
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Allen Press
Oprawa: Twarda z obwolutą
Opis
Life in Europe was fundamentally changed in the 16th century by the astonishing discoveries of the New World and of direct sea routes to Asia. To start with England was hardly involved and London remained a gloomy, introverted medieval city. But as the century progressed something extraordinary happened. Stephen Alfords evocative, original and fascinating new book uses the same skills that made his widely praised The Watchers so successful, bringing to life the network of merchants, visionaries, crooks and sailors who changed London forever. In a sudden explosion of energy English ships were suddenly found all over the world - trading with Russia and the Levant, exploring Virginia and the Arctic, and fanning out across the Indian Ocean. Londons Triumph is above all about the people who made this possible - the families, the guild members, the money-men who were willing to risk huge sums and sometimes their own lives in pursuit of the rare, exotic and desirable. Their ambitions fuelled a new view of the world - initiating a long era of trade and empire, the consequences of which we still live with today.
Szczegóły
Tytuł
London's Triumph
Podtytuł
Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City
Autor
Wydawnictwo
Allen Press
Rok wydania
2017
Oprawa
Twarda z obwolutą
Ilość stron
316
Format
16.0x24.5cm
Języki
angielski
ISBN
9780241003589
Rodzaj
Książka
Stan
Nowy
EAN
9780241003589
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