Global Traffic: Discourses and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture from 1550 to 1700

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Global Traffic: An Introduction....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
“The Common Market of All the World”: English Theater, the Global System, and the Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Period....Pages 19-37
“Ill Luck, Ill Luck?”: Risk and Hazard in The Merchant of Venice....Pages 39-55
Salvation, Social Struggle, and the Ideology of the Company Merchant: Baptist Goodall’s The Tryall of Trauell (1630)....Pages 57-76
The Panoramic View in Mercantile Thought: Or, a Merchant’s Map of Cymbeline....Pages 77-94
“Not Every Man has the Luck to go to Corinth”: Accruing Exotic Capital in The Jew of Malta and Volpone....Pages 95-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
“Absent, Weak, or Unserviceable”: the East India Company and the Domestic Economy in The Launching of the Mary, or the Seaman’s Honest Wife....Pages 117-136
The Flowers of Paradise: Botanical Trade in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England....Pages 137-156
Inhaling the Alien: Race and Tobacco in Early Modern England....Pages 157-178
“A Foreigner by Birth”: The Life of Indian Cloth in the Early Modern English Marketplace....Pages 179-198
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
The Tempest and the Newfoundland Cod Fishery....Pages 201-220
“Mysteries of Commerce”1: Influence, Licensing, Censorship, and the Literature of Long-Distance Travel....Pages 221-243
Global Œconomy: Ben Jonson’s The Staple of News and the Ethics of Mercantilism....Pages 245-263
Afterword: Accommodating Change....Pages 265-273
Back Matter....Pages 275-287