England's Baltic Trade Early 17C: A Study in An. Fedorowicz<|

England's Baltic Trade in the Early Seventeenth CenturyA Study in Anglo-Polish Commercial Diplomacy\nAuthor(s): J. K. Fedorowicz\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521073882, 978-0521073882\nSynopsis\nEngland's relationship with the Baltic trading area has remained a generally neglected aspect of English commercial development in the seventeenth century. The spectacular colonial ventures have traditionally attracted more historical attention, although the Baltic trade in this period was more fundamental to the English economy: it supplied precisely those naval commodities, such as flax, hemp, timber, pitch and tar, which facilitated the creation of fleets for the colonial trades. Medieval English trade had been conditioned by a search for markets, and the predominantly agricultural economy of the Polish Commonwealth proved to be an ideal target for cloth exports. By the early seventeenth century.