A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume I offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise

Based on newly uncovered archival sources as well as archaeological studies, this book offers the first extensive overview of the German trade with the North Atlantic in English. It challenges assumptions about the backwardness of the German North Atlantic trade, and argues that merchants did...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Maps, Tables, and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Methods and Sources -- Structure of the Book -- PART I: COMMERCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- Chapter Two: The Development of the Antwerp Market before 1500 -- Antwerp's Early Development -- The...