London The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City, 1549-1689.

By:

Batchelor, Robert K [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780226080796

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

DA681 .L663 2014

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Subject: If one had looked for a potential global city in Europe in the 1540s, the most likely candidate would have been Antwerp, which had emerged as the center of the German and Spanish silver exchange as well as the Portuguese spice and Spanish sugar trades. It almost certainly would not have been London, an unassuming hub of the wool and cloth trade with a population of around 75,000, still trying to recover from the onslaught of the Black Plague. But by 1700 London's population had reached a staggering 575,000-and it had developed its first global corporations, as well as relationships with n.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	DA681 .29 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn866858626

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Translating Asia; 1. The Global Corporation; 2. National Autonomy; 3. The Value of History: Languages, Records, and Laws; 4. The Image of Absolutism; 5. The System of the World; Conclusion: Asia and the Making of Modern London; Acknowledgments; A Note on Manuscripts; Notes; Index

If one had looked for a potential global city in Europe in the 1540s, the most likely candidate would have been Antwerp, which had emerged as the center of the German and Spanish silver exchange as well as the Portuguese spice and Spanish sugar trades. It almost certainly would not have been London, an unassuming hub of the wool and cloth trade with a population of around 75,000, still trying to recover from the onslaught of the Black Plague. But by 1700 London's population had reached a staggering 575,000-and it had developed its first global corporations, as well as relationships with n.

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