William A. Pettigrew was educated at Oxford and Yale. He was a Junior Research Fellow and Tutor in History at Corpus Christ College, Oxford before taking up a permanent post at the University of Kent in 2009. He was appointed to a personal Chair at Lancaster in 2018.

This densely written examination of developments in English trade and trade freedom in the 17th and 18th centuries shows how the role of corporations of merchant traders--the East India Company, Levant Company, Muscovy Company, and Royal African Company...Recommended.

• 1: Introduction: Trading Corporations, Cross-Cultural Alliances in Global Settings, and the Meanings of English Freedom 2: Smyrna, Venice, and the Rise of Statute in Trade Regulation, 1619-1647 3: Abu al-Mafakhir Mahmud Abdulkadir, the Skinner brothers, and the Constitutional Right to Free Trade, 1650-1668 4: Prince Bibe of Ouidah and the Freeing of the English Slave Trade, 1679-1694 5: King Nrai of Siam and the Redefinition of English Subjecthood, 1678 - 1698 6: Itimad Khan and the Statute to Suppress Piracy, 1694-1700 7: Conclusion: Free to Dominate

William A. Pettigrew was educated at Oxford and Yale. He was a Junior Research Fellow and Tutor in History at Corpus Christ College, Oxford before taking up a permanent post at the University of Kent in 2009. He was appointed to a personal Chair at Lancaster in 2018.

This densely written examination of developments in English trade and trade freedom in the 17th and 18th centuries shows how the role of corporations of merchant traders--the East India Company, Levant Company, Muscovy Company, and Royal African Company...Recommended.

• 1: Introduction: Trading Corporations, Cross-Cultural Alliances in Global Settings, and the Meanings of English Freedom 2: Smyrna, Venice, and the Rise of Statute in Trade Regulation, 1619-1647 3: Abu al-Mafakhir Mahmud Abdulkadir, the Skinner brothers, and the Constitutional Right to Free Trade, 1650-1668 4: Prince Bibe of Ouidah and the Freeing of the English Slave Trade, 1679-1694 5: King Nrai of Siam and the Redefinition of English Subjecthood, 1678 - 1698 6: Itimad Khan and the Statute to Suppress Piracy, 1694-1700 7: Conclusion: Free to Dominate

William A. Pettigrew was educated at Oxford and Yale. He was a Junior Research Fellow and Tutor in History at Corpus Christ College, Oxford before taking up a permanent post at the University of Kent in 2009. He was appointed to a personal Chair at Lancaster in 2018.

This densely written examination of developments in English trade and trade freedom in the 17th and 18th centuries shows how the role of corporations of merchant traders--the East India Company, Levant Company, Muscovy Company, and Royal African Company...Recommended.

• 1: Introduction: Trading Corporations, Cross-Cultural Alliances in Global Settings, and the Meanings of English Freedom 2: Smyrna, Venice, and the Rise of Statute in Trade Regulation, 1619-1647 3: Abu al-Mafakhir Mahmud Abdulkadir, the Skinner brothers, and the Constitutional Right to Free Trade, 1650-1668 4: Prince Bibe of Ouidah and the Freeing of the English Slave Trade, 1679-1694 5: King Nrai of Siam and the Redefinition of English Subjecthood, 1678 - 1698 6: Itimad Khan and the Statute to Suppress Piracy, 1694-1700 7: Conclusion: Free to Dominate