Klemens Kaps : connectors, networks and commercial systems: approaches to the study of early modern maritime trade history / Manuel Herrero Sánchez -- Merchant networks, early modern long-distance trade and globalization : theoretical considerations and historiographical reappraisal --...

Zwischen 1961 und 1974 schlossen die Bundesrepublik und die USA acht Offset-Abkommen. Im Rahmen dieser Abkommen erwarb die Bundesrepublik Rüstungsgüter und US-Staatsanleihen, um die Devisenkosten der in der Bundesrepublik stationierten US-Truppen zu kompensieren. Im übergeordneten Sinne...

pt. 1. Merchant networks, early modern long-distance trade and globalization : theoretical considerations and historiographical reappraisal -- pt. II. The social composition of networks : cultural identities versus transnationality -- pt. III. Connecting spaces : networks and systems, merchants...

Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson present a coherent picture of trade, migration, and international capital flows in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914--the first great globalization boom, which anticipated the experience of the last fifty years.