Introduction: the arc of historical commercial relations between China and Southeast Asia / Wen-Chin Chang and Eric Tagliacozzo -- Chinese on the mining frontier in Southeast Asia / Anthony Reid -- Cotton, copper, and caravans : trade and the transformation of Southwest China / …
La 4e de couv. indique : "Against the backdrop of England's emergence as a major economic power, the development of early modern capitalism in general and the transformation of the Mediterranean, Maria Fusaro presents a new perspective on the onset of Venetian decline. Examining…
In the first decades of the 1800s, after almost three centuries of Iberian rule, former Spanish territories fragmented into more than a dozen new polities. Edge of Empire analyzes the emergence of Montevideo as a hot spot of Atlantic trade and regional center of power, often opp…
"The Merchant Republics" analyzes the ways in which three major economic powerhouses - Amsterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg - developed dual identities as 'communities of commerce' and as republics over the course of the long eighteenth century (c.1648-1790). In addition to discussing…
"The Merchant Republics analyzes the ways in which three major economic powerhouses ... Amsterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg ... developed dual identities as 'communities of commerce' and as republics over the course of the long eighteenth century (c.1648-1790). In addition to discuss…
Explains how, on the eve of the Norman Conquest, England had become an exceptionally wealthy, highly urbanized kingdom, with a large, well-controlled coinage of high quality.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The making of market conventions -- Transport and tactics -- The economic culture of drugs -- Transplanting -- The economics of violence -- Making modern markets -- World trade, industrialization, and deindustrialization -- Manufacturing since …
"This revealing portrait of the Dutch Empire repositions our understanding of modern empires from the terrestrial to the oceanic. It highlights the importance of shipping, port cities, and maritime culture to the political struggles of the 1920s and 30s. Port cities such as Jedd…
