Journal article
War, peace, commerce and the Treaty of London (1604)
- Abstract:
- The Treaty of London (1604) brought an end to the long Anglo-Spanish War. Scholars have assumed that peace was broadly welcomed, especially among the English mercantile community. Yet many merchants had made vast fortunes from the war, through privateering or opening trade routes with Spain’s imperial territories. This article demonstrates that the lobbying of merchants significantly shaped the negotiations for the Treaty of London. Simultaneously, multiple manuscript treatises arguing pro or contra peace were widely circulated: these foregrounded commercial concerns in their analysis of foreign policy.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1093/hisres/htad011
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- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Journal:
- Historical Research More from this journal
- Volume:
- 96
- Issue:
- 274
- Pages:
- 459-472
- Publication date:
- 2023-06-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2023-04-12
- DOI:
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1468-2281
- ISSN:
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0950-3471
- Language:
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English
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1337242
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pubs:1337242
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2023-04-13
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- Copyright holder:
- Alexandra Gajda
- Copyright date:
- 2023
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- © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Institute of Historical Research. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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