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

Introduction. Atlantic lives : Anglo-African trade in northern Guinea -- Buyers and sellers in cross-cultural trade -- "Artificers" and merchants : making and moving goods -- West Africans profiting in Atlantic trade -- Company property : captives, rebels, and grometos -- Free agents and local...

"Through the histories of English trading companies -- the Levant Company, the East India Company, and the Royal African Company -- this book shows how non-European peoples in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, West Africa, and Western India used their control over these companies to shape the...