External Factors in the Rise of Britain: Foreigners and Foreign Capital in Britain during the Transition Period
Liu Jinghua
Beijing: People’s Publishing House, 2010.
ISBN：9787010092546
External Factors in the Rise of Britain explores the situation of immigrants and foreign merchants in Britain and their contributions from the 11thto the 18thcentury, including Jews, Italian merchants, German Hanseatic merchants, Netherlandish textile artisans, French Huguenots, Dutch merchants and others. The book also analyses evolution of the attitudes of British government and society towards foreigners at differentperiods. It contributes to a deeper understandingon whymodern Britain was able to rise.
