The rise of merchant empires : long-distance trade in the early modern world, 1350-1750

IX, 442 S

Kt., graph. Darst., Ill

24 cm

Studies in comparative early modern history. - Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, ZDB-ID 2265556-6. - Vol. [1]

Includes bibliographical references and index

World bullion flows, 1450-1800 / Ward Barrett -- Merchant communities, 1350-1750 / Frédéric Mauro -- Economic aspects of the eighteenth-century Atlantic slave trade / Herbert S. Klein -- Marginalization, stagnation, and growth : the trans-Saharan caravan trade in the era of European expansion, 1500-1900 / Ralph A. Austen -- The "decline" of the central Asian caravan trade / Morris Rossabi -- Merchant communities in precolonial India / Irfan Habib -- Merchants without empire : the Hokkien sojourning communities / Wang Gungwu.

Introduction / James D. Tracy -- Structural changes in European long-distance trade, and particularly in the re-export trade from south to north, 1350-1750 / Herman van der Wee -- The growth and composition of trade in the Iberian empires, 1450-1750 / Carla Rahn Phillips -- The growth and composition of the long-distance trade of England and the Dutch Republic before 1750 / Niels Steensgaard -- France, the Antilles, and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : renewals of foreign trade / Paul Butel -- Productivity, profitability, and costs of private and corporate Dutch ship owning in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Jaap R. Bruijn -- The Dutch and English East India companies compared : evidence from the stock and foreign exchange markets / Larry Neal.

Enth. 13 Beitr.

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