The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650-1770

This analysis of a crucial transformation in the history of world trade reveals how London and its surroundings grew during the eighteenth century to become the first true entrepot. The city developed a new kind of commercial structure sharply distinct from that of Holland and Amsterdam during the seventeenth century.

Author: David Ormrod
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 04/21/2003
Pages: 420
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.73lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9780521819268

About the Author
Ormrod, David: - David Ormrod is Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and a leading authority on British and Dutch commercial history in the early modern period.

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