Economies of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives brings together recent, cutting-edge research … on economic factors affecting peace and war. This important area of continuing research was the focus of an international … perspectives on the economic foundations of peace, violence and war within countries, connections between international trade and …

, the America's, Asia and Europe as mercantile cultures met in a globalizing world. From these encounters, power …, subjugation and conflict arose as part of the same world as cooperation, cross-culturalism and cosmopolitism. Understanding early … modern merchant cultures is thus paramount to comprehending the sinews of globalization before 1800. Merchants worldwide …