Books by Pamela Nightingale

This book charts the contributions made to the development of the late medieval English economy by enterprise, money, and credit in a period which saw its major export trade in wool, which earned most of its money-supply, suffer from prolonged periods of warfare, high taxation, adverse weather, and mortality of sheep.

Features articles that analyse the contribution made by overseas trade, and the wealth in coin which it created, to the development of the English economy and locate this in an European-wide setting. This work also shows how the wool trade altered the geographical pattern of wealth and enriched peasants, landowners and merchants.

First published in 1973, this book describes the career of Sir George Macartney, who spent 28 years at the turn of the 19th century as British representative in Sinkiang, China's most westerly province.

This study examines the influence of commercial interests on the expansion of the British Empire in Western India in the age of Cornwallis and Wellesley. It questions some of the assumptions which have been accepted as explanations of British imperialism in that part of India.