The English-Portuguese alliance of 1654 lasted for 156 years. Interweaving politics, economics, religion and commerce to portray what life was like for English merchants in Portugal, this work is the result of many years of archival research.
The English-Portuguese alliance of 1654 lasted for 156 years. Interweaving politics, economics, religion and commerce to portray what life was like for English merchants in Portugal, this work is the result of many years of archival research.
Based on the diary of an 18th-century Russian provincial merchant, this book presents a revealing portrait of Russia's little-known commercial class. It challenges the stereotypes of Russian merchants as tradition-bound and narrow-minded and offers important new insights into th…
Based on the diary of an 18th-century Russian provincial merchant, this book presents a revealing portrait of Russia's little-known commercial class. It challenges the stereotypes of Russian merchants as tradition-bound and narrow-minded and offers important new insights into th…
"This book examines one of the most dynamic groups in early modern Britain, the overseas merchants of the City of London. Historians have increasingly recognized their key contribution to the nation's emergence as an imperial power and commercial society, but we still lack a cle…
Gauci examines one of the most dynamic groups in early modern Britain, the overseas merchants of the City of London.
Gender on the Market is a study of Moroccan women's expressive culture and the ways in which it both determines and responds to current transformations in gender role. In Morocco the last decade has seen a dramatic increase in women's public visibility and a major reorganization…
In Trading Communities, Taco Terpstra shows that long-distance trade in the Roman Empire was conducted through foreign trading communities living overseas, held together by ethnic and geographical identity.
