Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Institutions, Transaction Costs, and the Rise of Merchant Empires
- 2 Merchants and States
- 3 The Rise of Merchant Empires, 1400–1700: A European Counterpoint
- 4 Europe and the Wider World, 1500–1700: The Military Balance
- 5 The Pirate and the Emperor: Power and the Law on the Seas, 1450–1850
- 6 Transport Costs and Long-Range Trade, 1300–1800: Was There a European “Transport Revolution” in the Early Modern Era?
- 7 Transaction Costs: A Note on Merchant Credit and the Organization of Private Trade
- 8 Evolution of Empire: The Portuguese in the Indian Ocean During the Sixteenth Century
- 9 Comparing the Tokagawa Shogunate with Hapsburg Spain: Two Silver-Based Empires in a Global Setting
- 10 Colonies as Mercantile Investments: The Luso-Brazilian Empire, 1500–1808
- 11 Reflections on the Organizing Principle of Premodern Trade
- Selected Bibliography of Secondary Works
- Index
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Institutions, Transaction Costs, and the Rise of Merchant Empires
- 2 Merchants and States
- 3 The Rise of Merchant Empires, 1400–1700: A European Counterpoint
- 4 Europe and the Wider World, 1500–1700: The Military Balance
- 5 The Pirate and the Emperor: Power and the Law on the Seas, 1450–1850
- 6 Transport Costs and Long-Range Trade, 1300–1800: Was There a European “Transport Revolution” in the Early Modern Era?
- 7 Transaction Costs: A Note on Merchant Credit and the Organization of Private Trade
- 8 Evolution of Empire: The Portuguese in the Indian Ocean During the Sixteenth Century
- 9 Comparing the Tokagawa Shogunate with Hapsburg Spain: Two Silver-Based Empires in a Global Setting
- 10 Colonies as Mercantile Investments: The Luso-Brazilian Empire, 1500–1808
- 11 Reflections on the Organizing Principle of Premodern Trade
- Selected Bibliography of Secondary Works
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Political Economy of Merchant EmpiresState Power and World Trade, 1350–1750, pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991