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This regional history of Eastern Indonesia examines the sosolot trade network, a large web of historical relationships between the Central Malukan people of East Seram and their trade friends and kin in small settlements along the southwest coast of West Papua. For five hundred …

This dissertation studies the emergence and development of informal trade between Turkey and the former Soviet Union (FSU)--particularly Russia--in the last decade of the twentieth century. It examines the economic structure of this trade network as well as the entrepreneurial a…

Between the 16th and 18th centuries, Spain prospered as a dominant trading empire with the help of the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade network. While Spain’s empire grew with the trade network, some disasters struck Manila galleons on their voyages. To date, two of those shipwreck…