Acknowledgments -- Introduction (L.H. Roper and Bertrand van Ruymbeke) -- Chapter One Creating Colonial Brazil: the First Donatary Captaincies, or the System of Private Exclusivity (1534-1549) (Mickaël Augeron and Laurent Vidal) -- Chapter Two Adelantados and Encomenderos in Spanish America...

This case study of the tea trade of the Dutch East India Company with China deals with the most profitable phase of the Dutch Company's China trade, focusing on the question why and how the tea trade was taken out of the hands of the High Government in Batavia and put under the supervision of...

Considerable attention has recently been focused on the importance of social networks and business culture in reducing transaction costs, both in the pre-industrial period and during the nineteenth century. This book brings together twelve original contributions by scholars in the United...

In the wake of the War of 1812, the Madison and Monroe administrations oversaw the institution of a series of protective tariffs meant to shield fledgling American industries from British product "dumping." While southerners supported these protectionist measures early on, they quickly came to...

Explores the cultural economies of two "non-traditional" commodity trades between Africa and Europe - one anglophone, the other francophone - in order to show not only why they differ but also how both have felt the fall-out of the wealthy world's food scares

Explores the interactions of 19th century American merchants with the Japanese in the treaty port system, how the Japanese leadership manipulated them, and how the merchants themselves defined the limitations of American business in Japan

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- ONE: The Virtuous Circle of Trade and the Labor Compact -- PART 1 HOW GLOBALIZATION CAUSED THE LABOR COMPACT -- TWO: Challenge and Response -- THREE: Markets and States in Old and New Worlds -- FOUR: International Labor Standards: Ideas or Trade...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Commerce, State-Building, and Republicanism in Old Regime France -- 1. Louis XIV, Marseillais Merchants, and the Problem of Discerning the Public Good -- 2. Between Republic and Monarchy: Debating Commerce and Virtue -- 3. France and the...

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures, Maps and Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chronology -- 1. The Hidden Wound -- 2. This Imperious Company -- 3. Out of the Shadows -- 4. The Bengal Revolution -- 5. The Great East Indian Crash -- 6. Regulating the Company -- 7....