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Brokerage and Networks in London’s Global World

Kinship, Commerce and Communities through the experience of John Blackwell

David Farr

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English
Routledge
29 January 2024
The Londoner John Blackwell (1624-1701), shaped by his parents’ Puritanism and merchant interests of his iconoclast father, became one of Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army captains. Working with his father in Parliament’s financial administration both supported the regicide and benefitted financially from the subsequent sales of land from those defeated in the civil wars. Surviving the Restoration, Blackwell pursued interests in Ireland and banking schemes in London and Massachusetts, before being governor of Pennsylvania. Blackwell worked with his son, Lambert Blackwell, who established himself as a merchant, financier and representative of the state in Italy during the wars of William III before being embroiled in the South Sea Bubble.

The linked histories of the three Blackwells reinforce the importance of kinship and the development of the early modern state centred in an increasingly global London and illustrate the ownership of the memory of the civil wars, facilitated by their kin links to Cromwell and John Lambert, architect of Cromwell’s Protectorate, by those who fought against Charles I.

Suitable for specialists in the area and students taking courses on early modern English, European and American history as well as those with a more general interest in the period.
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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   453g
ISBN:   9781032072289
ISBN 10:   1032072288
Series:   Routledge Research in Early Modern History
Pages:   348
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction / PART 1:1594-1660 / Puritan Activists, 1594-1642 / War, 1642-1646 / Revolution, 1646-1649 / Administrator and Politician, 1645-1660 / Speculators and Agents, 1646-1660 / PART 2:1660-1691 / Survival and new opportunities, 1660-1672 / Kin and Brokerage, 1647-1693 / Blackwell in America: Massachusetts, 1684-1688 / Blackwell in America: Pennsylvania, 1688-1690 / PART 3:1691-1727 / Blackwell and Lambert Blackwell: London and Italy, 1672-1701 / Lambert Blackwell in Italy: Merchant, Consul and Envoy, 1684-1705 / Lambert Blackwell in Italy: representative of the English state at war, 1690-1705 / Lambert Blackwell: Financier, MP and landed elite, 1705-1720 / Lambert Blackwell and the South Sea Bubble, 1711-1727 / Conclusion

David Farr is Deputy Head Academic of Norwich School. He is author of full-length studies of the Cromwellian military-religious figures, John Lambert, Henry Ireton, Thomas Harrison and Hezekiah Haynes and the failure of Oliver Cromwell’s Godly Revolution, 1594-1704 (2020).

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