London's Triumph
  • Published: 16 April 2018
  • ISBN: 9780141978116
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $30.00
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London's Triumph

Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City

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16 Apr 2018
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The story of the individuals whose ambition and recklessness transformed London, England and the world

Life in Europe was fundamentally changed in the 16th century by the astonishing discoveries of the New World and of direct sea routes to Asia. To start with England was hardly involved and London remained a gloomy, introverted medieval city. But as the century progressed something extraordinary happened.

Stephen Alford's evocative, original and fascinating new book brings to life the network of merchants, visionaries, crooks and sailors who changed London forever.

London's Triumph is above all about the people who made this possible - the families, the guild members, the money-men who were willing to risk huge sums and sometimes their own lives in pursuit of the rare, exotic and desirable. Their ambitions fuelled a new view of the world - initiating a long era of trade and empire, the consequences of which we still live with today.
  • Published: 16 April 2018
  • ISBN: 9780141978116
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $30.00
Categories:
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Praise for London's Triumph

Exceptionally rich and variegated...This might be a book for ministers to take on holiday in the summer.

Jessie Childs, Guardian

Like all the best stories, it is about the timeless tides of power and influence... consistently illuminating and filled with pleasing resonance

Sinclair McKay, Spectator

Vivid and informative... somehow one can't help wondering whether there might be a lesson [here] for British commerce today.

Noel Malcolm, Telegraph

A city contending with immigration, religious difference and the threat of violence... the unspoken comparisons that haunt this story are unavoidably poignant

Times Higher Education Supplement

The book is crammed with unexpected sidelights of 16th century London

Times