Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550-1653Author Contributor(s): Brenner, Robert Publisher: Verso Date: 8 17 2003 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW Merchants and Revolution examines the activities of Londons merchant community during the early Stuart period. Proposing a new understanding of long term commercial change, Robert Brenner explains the factors behind the opening of long distance commerce to the south and east, describing how the great City merchants wielded power to exploit