...Ayesha Mukherjee English experiences of late‐Elizabethan economic crises coincided with national ambition to engage in global trade, marking a shift in the discourse of “needs” and “wants” in the English commonwealth. English travelers and traders documented in different modes of writing...

.... It examines England and Spain's shared cultural heritage and the trade agreements and dynastic marriages that had linked them closely by blood. Special attention is given to Philip II's entry into London in 1554 as the new English king, a pivotal moment in the rivalry between the two countries. While popular...

... and their female kin) only exacerbated the fear that the fashionable attires they manufactured were emasculating English men. Contemporary invectives against such women focused on their wield- ing of the (phallic) tools of their trades — such as needles, pins, poking-­sticks...

...-be colonizers continued to mount efforts, in the hope of expanding the English trade diaspora through plunder, trade, and settlement. Before the 1570s, and especially during the post-Reformation tur- moil of the mid-century, England was dependent and passive in its relation- ship to the dynamic...

... from Moscow following the execution of Charles I in 1649. Its main task was to restore the trade privi- leges that the English Muscovy Company had previously enjoyed since the reign of Ivan IV.11 But England was also preparing for a naval confronta- tion with the United Provinces, wanted access...

..., association, or ecology. Nonetheless, we see that historiographies of the Mediterranean do grant possession: to the Romans, to Philip II, to Christians and Muslims, or to Dutch, French, and English trading companies, with Phoenicians, Jews, and other diasporas, intermediaries, transgressors...

... of anxiety. Not only has the other been willingly allowed into England through the cloth trade, but this action also calls into question the national sympathies of the Englishman. We might, as Newman does, compare this to the representation of the English nation-state, as the body politic...

... of these trips. The Ottomans were also anxious to establish direct relations “in order to obtain vital materials such as English tin, steel and lead, as well as to give a fatal blow to the Venetian economy.”27 England was equally concerned with establishing new trade relations...

...., 2 tables. Hardcover, ebook. Barbour, Richmond. The Loss of the “Trades Increase”: An Early Modern Maritime Catastrophe . Haney Foundation Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. x, 310 pp., 15 illus. Hardcover, ebook. [On the disastrous voyage of the greatest English...

... the Renaissance as the time at which the mirror ceased to be invested with magical properties and instead became emblematic of the modern subject. In his compendious study, The Mutable Glass: Mirror-Imagery in Titles and Texts of the Middle Ages and English Renaissance, Herbert Grabes claims that between...

... the potential rewards and consequences of imperial expansion from a terrestrial, local, and communal perspective. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 British Empire English sailors ballads seafaring life family and community Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 50:2, May 2020...

..., and consumption, in which actors played multiple roles. Furthermore, the French treatises constitute what I will call a pivot in the written traditions in Europe. New World chocolate inspired early Spanish and English treatises offering nationalist reflections on its reception in each imperial country...

...Katarzyna Lecky This essay shows that small-format cartography of the English Renaissance fostered a geographical imagination that placed nonelites at the heart of the nation's collective identity. Cheap maps, guides, and atlases — a staple of the popular print market — were public forms...

... University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California The recorded stopping-places of one English vagrant arrested by authorities during a western trek in 1612 takes the following night-by-numbers form: First night, the Saracen’s Head in Farringdon...

... , the results were immensely influential for both social and economic historians of the early modern period. 1 The insights that the English people had long labored under a “low-pressure” demographic regime of attenuated fertility and mortality; that the relationship between real incomes and marriage rates...

... and steadfast refusal to trade with foreigners frustrated and angered them.”37 Mammon’s great treasures, as well as his insatiable thirst for gold, invoke an English perception of the Spanish monopoly in the New World. In the tradition of the black legend, Mammon’s imperial quest is depicted...

... the feast of Corpus Christi itself, were deliberately made to appeal to every sector of English urban and rural society; but in this world their greatest rewards were enjoyed by the mercantile elite of the city.”34 314  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 37.2 / 2007 Given...

... fashion for destroying a sense of true Englishness is aimed, fundamentally, at protecting the native English wool trade. So central was this trade to the nation’s well-being that anything which threatened its health was tantamount to the bubonic plague or treason. While some few thinkers were able...

... but nevertheless concludes that this constituted a much lower rate of surplus labor extraction than that found in English industry and agriculture in his own day (35:246–47). As he says in volume 3 of Capitall, the low levels of productivity characteristic of the feudal mode of production mean that surplus...

... 1600s, more than half of their 1,500 or so captives were English or Irish, taken from captured ships or right off British shores: for decades thereafter the English commonly called any corsair from any- where in Barbary a “Sallyman.”20 This sort of exogamous slaving was also the rule...