Utilising a variety of contemporary commercial, diplomatic and judiciary sources, Grimshaw traces and analyses how England and Sweden forged the most pivotal commercial relationship of the seventeenth century

"Global history is predicated on connections and exchange: how connections between far-flung people, places, and objects are forged through a variety of exchanges. As world history has matured as a field, its practitioners have found the movement of commodities between peoples, places, and time...