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BROKERAGE AND NETWORKS IN LONDON?S GLOBAL WORLD IBD

ROUTLEDGE
04 / 2022
9781032072272
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Sinopsis

The Londoner John Blackwell (1624-1701), shaped by his parentsâÇÖ Puritanism and merchant interests of his iconoclast father, became one of Oliver CromwellâÇÖs New Model Army captains. Working with his father in ParliamentâÇÖs financial administration both supported the regicide and benefitted financially from the subsequent sales of land from those defeated in the civil wars. Surviving the Restoration, Blackwell pursued interests in Ireland andábanking schemes in London and Massachusetts, before being governor of Pennsylvania. Blackwell worked with his son, Lambert Blackwell, who established himself as a merchant, financier and representative of the state in Italy during the wars of William III before being embroiled in the South Sea Bubble.aÇÇThe linked histories of the three Blackwells reinforce the importance of kinship andáthe development of the early modern state centred in an increasingly global London and illustrate the ownership of the memory of the civil wars, facilitated by their kin links to Cromwell and John Lambert, architect of CromwellâÇÖs Protectorate, by those who fought against Charles I.aÇÇSuitable for specialists in the area and students taking courses on early modern English, European and American history as well as those with a more general interest in the period.

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267,50