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London : the Selden Map and the making of a global city, 1549-1689 /
London in the 1540s was 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 wel...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | London in the 1540s was 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 non-European societies outside the Mediterranean. What happened in the span of a century and a half? And how exactly did London transform itself into a global city? |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 334 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 022608079X 9780226080796 1306269857 9781306269858 |