For a very long time, the areas available for continuous long-distance trade were limited to territories the size of Braudel's Mediterranée (1949). Whatever the commercial organizations (merchants in the Roman or the Fatimid Empires, the Hanseatic League, the Florentine Companies), their trade...

Considering Britain's physical capital, this book examines the distribution of investment between industries and between industry on the one hand and social and administrative purposes on the other. The Sterling Area is also examined, from the point of view of the UK and the rest of the world....

Das 21. Jahrhundert ist durch eine globale geostrategische Konstellation gekennzeichnet, die mit dem Abstieg des US­Hegemons und dem Aufstieg Chinas verbunden ist. Wolfram Elsner untersucht diese Aufstiegs-Abstiegs-Konstellation und ihre Vorgeschichte in Eurasien über 5000 Jahre, seit den...