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London : the Selden Map and the making of a global city, 1549-1689

"By 1700 London's population had reached a staggering 575,000 - and it had developed its first global corporations, as well as relationships with non-European societies outside the Mediterranean ...how did London transform itself into a global city? London's success ... lies not just with the well-documented rise of Atlantic settlements, markets and economies, Using [the author's] discovery of a network of Chinese shipping routes on John Selden's map of China as his jumping-off point, Batchelor reveals how London flourished because of its many encounters, engagements and exchanges with East Asian trading cities"--Publisher's description.

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