Global Traffic

Chapter 1 Global Traffic: An Introduction

Chapter 2 “The Common Market of All the World”: English Theater, the Global System, and the Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Period

Chapter 3 “Ill Luck, Ill Luck?”: Risk and Hazard in The Merchant of Venice

Chapter 4 Salvation, Social Struggle, and the Ideology of the Company Merchant: Baptist Goodall’s The Tryall of Trauell (1630)

Chapter 5 The Panoramic View in Mercantile Thought: Or, a Merchant’s Map of Cymbeline

Chapter 6 “Not Every Man has the Luck to go to Corinth”: Accruing Exotic Capital in The Jew of Malta and Volpone

Chapter 7 “Absent, Weak, or Unserviceable”: the East India Company and the Domestic Economy in The Launching of the Mary, or the Seaman’s Honest Wife

Chapter 8 The Flowers of Paradise: Botanical Trade in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England

Chapter 9 Inhaling the Alien: Race and Tobacco in Early Modern England

Chapter 10 “A Foreigner by Birth”: The Life of Indian Cloth in the Early Modern English Marketplace

Chapter 11 The Tempest and the Newfoundland Cod Fishery

Chapter 12 “Mysteries of Commerce” 1 : Influence, Licensing, Censorship, and the Literature of Long-Distance Travel

Chapter 13 Global Œconomy: Ben Jonson’s The Staple of News and the Ethics of Mercantilism

Chapter 14 Afterword: Accommodating Change