The Rise of Merchant Empires: Long Distance Trade in the Early Modern World 1350-1750James D. Tracy European dominance of the shipping lanes in the early modern period was a prelude to the great age of European imperial power in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet in the present age we can see that the pre-imperial age was in fact more an 'age of partnership' or an 'age of competition' when the West and Asia vied on even terms. The essays in this volume examine, on a global basis, the many different trading empires from the end of the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century. |
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Structural changes in European longdistance trade and particularly in the reexport trade from south to north 13501750 | 14 |
The growth and composition of trade in the Iberian empires 14501750 | 34 |
The growth and composition of the longdistance trade of England and the Dutch Republic before 1750 | 102 |
France the Antilles and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries renewals of foreign trade | 153 |
Productivity profitability and costs of private and corporate Dutch ship owning in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries | 174 |
The Dutch and English East India companies compared evidence from the stock and foreign exchange markets | 195 |
World bullion flows 14501800 | 224 |
Merchant communities 13501750 | 255 |
Economic aspects of the eighteenthcentury Atlantic slave trade | 287 |
Marginalization stagnation and growth the transSaharan caravan trade in the era of European expansion 15001900 | 311 |
The decline of the central Asian caravan trade | 351 |
Merchant communities in precolonial India | 371 |
Merchants without empire the Hokkien sojourning communities | 400 |
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