| ID: | 19414 |
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| Entry Text: | Rabb, Theodore K. Enterprise and Empire: Merchant and Gentry Investment in the Expansion of England, 1575-1630. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1967, xiv, 420 pp. Outstanding quantitative study; 6400 investors; dominance of foreigners ended, e.g., Hanse & Italians; great economic & financial transformation: "backwater becomes mainstream" & "caboose became the engine." |