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clientele.  In time, the insurance venture proved more lucrative than serving cups of Java.
The coffee-house proprietor  was Edward Lloyd, as in Lloyd's of London.  (James Burke,
Connections, pp. 193-194. See also Fernand Braudel, The Structures of Everyday Life:
Civilization & Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1, trans. Sian Reynolds, Perennial
Library, Harper & Row, New York, 1981, pp 254-260; Mitchell Stephens, A History of the
News: From the Drum to the Satellite, Viking, New York, 1988, pp. 41-43.)
150. Wolfram Eberhard, A History of China, pp. 169, 196. E.N. Anderson, The Food of
China, pp. 55-56.  Philip D. Curtin, Cross-Cultural Trade in World History, pp. 104-105.
151. Robert Christopher, The Japanese Mind, Fawcett Columbine, New York, 1983, p.
163.
152. Frederick Jackson Turner first presented his thesis, "The Significance of the Frontier
in American History," in 1893.  The concept wasn't published in book form until Turner put
out  his The Frontier in American History (Henry Holt, New York, 1920). For a modern
variation on the frontier hypothesis, see Daniel Boorstin, Hidden History: Exploring Our
Secret Past, pp. ix-xxv.
153. For the Hundred Years War, see: Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror, pp. 48-594; and
G.M. Trevelyan, A Shortened History of England, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth,
Middlesex, England, 1959 (originally published 1942), pp. 181-188.  For the loss of Calais
in 1558, see: James A. Williamson, The Evolution of England: A Commentary On the
Facts, Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, 1944, p. 179; and The New
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 2, p. 731.
154. A.L. Rowse, The Expansion of Elizabethan England.  Cambridge University historian
Eric Walker agrees with Rowse's assessment. (Eric A. Walker, The British Empire: Its
Structure and Spirit, 1497-1953, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
1956, p. 2.)  For the futile campaigns against the French with which Henry nearly
bankrupted his government, see: J.J. Scarisbrick, Henry VIII, University of California
Press, Berkeley, California, 1968, pp. 33-35, 453-456, and virtually the entire rest of the
book; J.D. Mackie, The Oxford History of England: The Earlier Tudors, 1485-1558, Oxford
University Press, London, 1962, pp. 410-412; Kenneth O. Morgan, ed., The Oxford
Illustrated History of Britain, Oxford University Press, New York, 1984, p. 256; and The
New Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. 5, pp. 840-841.
155. Keith Thomas, Man And The Natural World: A History of the Modern Sensibility, pp.
116-117.
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