A World of Business to Do
William Freeman and the Foundations of England's Commercial Empire, 1645-1707
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3250295 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Hancock (0000-0002-3925-1814), David W Hancock (0000-0003-3700-2731, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2674357 |
| OpenAlex | W2335204730 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
T THE empire that England built between i65i and I775 was a new kind of empire, significantly larger than the conglomerate that came to be known as Great Britain. It was global, combining territory as far east as India and as far west as America. At the same time, it was commercial, regulated from i65I onward through a series of mercantile laws, known as the Navigation Acts, that sought to reassert control over trade with English America after the chaos of the Civil War allowed the colonists to establish commercial relations with the Dutch and the French. Historians of Great Britain and her empire have proffered various explanations for the buildup of the empire and the expansion of overseas rule. In the second half of the seventeenth century, England experienced a Commercial, a Financial and a Glorious Revolution that contributed in very different ways to the construction of the empire. Yet these explanations, accurate and insightful as they may be, are only partial: they focus almost exclusively on individuals, institutions, policies, and events in the mother country; they tend to be written with a one-center, Englanddominant model of influence in mind.1 In the last few years, a number of
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| Citations per year | 0.45 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2022 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |