The Early Chartered Companies (A.D. 1296-1858)The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 27 במרץ 2017 - 346 עמודים The first study of all the great English chartered trading and colonizing companies that were incorporated before the 19th century. Originally published: London: Edward Arnold, 1896. Frontispiece. xi, 329 pp. A study of the inner workings of early chartered companies, especially in their direct connection to the rise and expansion of British commercial and political power between 1296 and 1858. Describes regulated and joint stock companies and such ventures as the Hanseatic League, The Russia Company, The Eastland Company, The Turkey (Levant) Company, the Hudson Bay and East India Companies and other British ventures in India, Africa, the Caribbean and North America. With a thorough index and an appendix containing examples of early charters. |
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... centuries England had little to offer in exchange for foreign wares , except such raw materials as hides , fish , tin , lead , and the fine wools for which the island had always been famous . But communities exclusively engaged in the ...
... century . The oldest extant written records of the League appear to date from about 1239 , when Hamburg formed an alliance for mutual self - defence with Ditmarsch and the Hadeln district . The union was extended in 1241 to Lubeck , in ...
... century to yield to the disintegrating forces of the times , it still continued to be represented by several Free Hanse Towns , ' three of which — Hamburg , Bremen , and Lubeck — still sur- vive as autonomous members of the German ...
... century later ( 1399 ) they were threatened with a total withdrawal of all their privileges , the complaint being that under pretence of their English charters they had afforded shelter to other outlandish merchants , whereby the King ...
... and even so late as the end of the seventeenth century there existed in England only three founded on the joint - stock principle , although these three — the East India , the Royal African REGULATED AND JOINT - STOCK COMPANIES 9.
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CHAPTER VI | 67 |
PAGE | 86 |
CHAPTER VIII | 120 |
CHAPTER IX | 154 |
CHAPTER X | 194 |
CHAPTER XI | 228 |
THE NAMES OF NOBLEMEN AND PERSONS OF HONOUR | 245 |
APPENDIX III | 305 |
INDEX | 321 |