Global Traffic: Discourses and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture from 1550 to 1700 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230604735)

This remarkable collection investigates the relations between literature and the economy in the context of the unprecedented expansion of early modern England s long distance trade. Studying a range of genres and writers, both familiar and lesser known, the essays offer a new history of globalization as a complex of unevenly developing cultural, discursive, and economic phenomena. While focusing on how long distance trade contributed to England s economic growth and cultural transformation, the collection taps into scholarly interest in race, gender, travel and exploration, domesticity, mapping, the state and emergent nationalism, and proto-colonialism in the early modern period.

Author: B. Sebek
ISBN-10: 0230604730
ISBN-13: 9780230604735
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 05/19/2008
Pages: 287
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.33h x 5.73w x 0.82d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 08/08/2008 pg. 17