Klappentext: "Coming Over" discusses the English migration to New England in the seventeenth century and shows the importance of English connections in the lives of American colonists. David Cressy reviews the information available to prospective migrants, the decisions they had to reach and the...

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

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Styles and Conventions -- Introduction -- Part I Coffee: From Curiosity to Commodity -- 1. An Acquired Taste -- 2. Coffee and Early Modern Drug Culture -- 3. From Mocha to Java -- Part II Inventing the Coffeehouse -- 4. Penny Universities? -- 5....