{"product_id":"citizens-of-the-world-london-merchants-and-the-integration-of-the-british-atlantic-community-1735-1785-paperback-9780521629423","title":"Citizens of the World; London Merchants and the Integration of the British Atlantic Community, 1735–1785 (Paperback) 9780521629423","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCitizens of the World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLondon Merchants and the Integration of the British Atlantic Community, 1735–1785\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExamines the business and social strategies of the men who developed the British empire in the eighteenth century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Hancock (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521629423, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 13 September 1997\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e504 pages, 66 b\/w illus.  11 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.5 x 2.7 cm, 0.695 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This is a detailed study of the business and social climbing of a group of eighteenth century British merchants active in the Atlantic world....Hancock has done a prodigious amount of research.\"    J.R. McNeill, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eCitizens of the World examines the business and social strategies of the men who developed the British empire in the eighteenth century. This book focuses on twenty-three London merchants who traded with America in an age of imperial expansion. These 'associates' started their careers as marginal people, sought and took advantage of opportunities around the world, and approached their business and social lives with the integrating and improving ideals of the practical Enlightenment. Professor Hancock reveals how they managed the business of the empire and turned themselves into gentlemen: he tracks their shipping over fifty years, investigates their farms and plantations, cumulates their investment portfolios, follows them into their scientific societies, and watches them build country houses and fill them with art. He places all this activity in the context of the developing institutions of Britain's colonies in America and polite society at home.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. The Crucible of Trade: 1. A larger world\u003cbr\u003e 2. Mercantile origins: 'passengers only'\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Management of Trade: 3. Managing from a 'Merchant's public counting house'\u003cbr\u003e 4. Shipping and trading in an 'empire of the seas'\u003cbr\u003e 5. Planting: 'a great fund of riches and of strength to Great Britain'\u003cbr\u003e 6. Slaving: Bance Island's 'general rendezvous'\u003cbr\u003e 7. Government contracting: 'a work of Hercules'\u003cbr\u003e 8. Financing: 'turning the great wheel of unfathomable commerce round'\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Becoming a Gentleman: 9. The urge to improve\u003cbr\u003e 10. The way to be rich and respectable\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: mercantile legacies: 'industrious friends'.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Early%20modern%20history:%20c%201450\/1500%20to%20c%201700%20%5BHBLH%5D%22\"\u003eHBLH\u003c\/a\u003e], History of the Americas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of the Americas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20the%20Americas%20%5BHBJK%5D%22\"\u003eHBJK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45909081129240,"sku":"9780521629423","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521629423i_ed134572-e291-4754-a708-56d2b5dc5566.jpg?v=1691379220","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/citizens-of-the-world-london-merchants-and-the-integration-of-the-british-atlantic-community-1735-1785-paperback-9780521629423","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}