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Half the Story of “The Rise of the English Shipping Industry”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2012

Dwight E. Robinson
Dwight E. Robinson
Affiliation:
Professor of General Business, University of Washington
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Abstract

In the manner of the Creole tradesmen of Louisiana, whose lagniappe to their patrons is legendary, the Editor offers a similar bonus to readers of the Review. Instead of trifling presents added to a purchase, however, our lagniappe will be notes and documents illustrative of the evolution of business enterprise.

Type
Lagniappe
Information
Business History Review , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1967 , pp. 303 - 308
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1967

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References

1 English Historical Review, LXXIX (July, 1964), 555–61CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 The Rise of the English Shipping Industry in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (London, 1962), 1Google Scholar.

3 Ibid., 2.

4 Ibid. One of Professor Davis' authorities which he cites for the condition of English shipping at the beginning of Elizabeth's reign is English Merchant Shipping, 1460–1540 (Toronto, 1947)Google Scholar by Dorothy Burwash. He fails to recognize that Miss Burwash is careful to inform us that her discussion does not include the coasting trade (201).

5 Rise of the English Shipping Industry (Italics mine) 3Google Scholar.

6 Hume, David, History of England (Philadelphia, 1795), II, 22Google Scholar.

7 Trevelyan, G. M., History of England (Garden City, N.Y., 1954), I, 297Google Scholar.

8 English Sea Power in the Early Tudor Period, 1485–1558 (Ithaca, 1965), 33Google Scholar.

9 Drake and the Tudor Navy (2 vols., London, 1899), I, 131, citing Venetian Calendar 1561, 274Google Scholar.

10 English Sea Power in the Early Tudor Period, 28.

11 The Rise of the British Coal Industry (2 vols., London, 1932)Google Scholar.

12 Ibid., I, 156–64. It also needs to be remembered that Nef was interested in the coal industry mainly in terms of the origins of the “Industrial Revolution.” Therefore, the comparisons he draws are between time periods, and not between England and other countries at any given time. There is nothing in Nef's work to suggest otherwise than that the Elizabethan coal trade was a great deal bigger than that of any continental country.

13 Rise of the English Shipping Industry, 17.

14 Corbett, Drake and the Tudor Navy, II, 138.