half of the nineteenth century. Each chapter includes case studies from different parts of the world, explaining the role … and fuel markets played in the evolution of international commercial flows and activities. Fuelling the World Economy will …

Ports are an important part of the global and regional freight supply chain and transport network. Background: as port … port activities, anticipate market changes and improve the ability of ports to withstand the growing general competitive … analysis of ports on the eastern Baltic Sea revealed that Klaipeda port is the most diversified port in the eastern Baltic Sea …

what was, and is again becoming, an Asia-centered world. In a challenge to received historiography and social theory he … turns on its head the world according to Marx, Weber, and other theorists, including Polanyi, Rostow, Braudel, and … Wallerstein. Frank explains the Rise of the West in world economic and demographic terms that relate it in a single historical …

Cover -- India in the World Economy -- New Approaches to Asian History 10 -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication … Trade, 1500-1800 -- The Indian Ocean world at 1500 -- The Portuguese enterprise -- East India Companies: Origins -- The … port towns -- State formation, 1707-1765 -- Transactions in knowledge -- Private trade and new enterprise, 1765 …