Brokerage and Networks in London's Global World: Kinship, Commerce and Communities through the experience of John Blackwell

by David Farr

The Londoner John Blackwell (1624-1701), shaped by his parents' Puritanism and merchant interests of his iconoclast father, became one of Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army captains. Working with his father in Parliament's 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 and banking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 103207227X
• ISBN13: 9781032072272
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"