London's Triumph Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare's City

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Free Download Stephen Alford, "London's Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare's City"
English | ISBN: 162040821X | 2017 | 336 pages | AZW3 | 5 MB
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist

From historian Stephen Alford, author of The Watchers, the dramatic story of the dazzling growth of London in the sixteenth century.
For most, England in the sixteenth century was the era of the Tudors, from Henry VII and VIII to Elizabeth I. But as their dramas played out at court, England was being transformed economically by the astonishing discoveries of the New World and of direct sea routes to Asia. At the start of the century, England was hardly involved in the wider world and London remained a gloomy, introverted medieval city. But as the century progressed something extraordinary happened, which placed London at the center of the world stage forever.
Stephen Alford's evocative, original new book uses the same skills that made his widely-praised
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