Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1 Structural changes in European long-distance trade, and particularly in the re-export trade from south to north, 1350–1750
- 2 The growth and composition of trade in the Iberian empires, 1450–1750
- 3 The growth and composition of the long-distance trade of England and the Dutch Republic before 1750
- 4 France, the Antilles, and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: renewals of foreign trade
- 5 Productivity, profitability, and costs of private and corporate Dutch ship owning in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- 6 The Dutch and English East India companies compared: evidence from the stock and foreign exchange markets
- 7 World bullion flows, 1450–1800
- 8 Merchant communities, 1350–1750
- 9 Economic aspects of the eighteenth-century Atlantic slave trade
- 10 Marginalization, stagnation, and growth: the trans-Saharan caravan trade in the era of European expansion, 1500–1900
- 11 The “decline” of the central Asian caravan trade
- 12 Merchant communities in precolonial India
- 13 Merchants without empire: the Hokkien sojourning communities
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1 Structural changes in European long-distance trade, and particularly in the re-export trade from south to north, 1350–1750
- 2 The growth and composition of trade in the Iberian empires, 1450–1750
- 3 The growth and composition of the long-distance trade of England and the Dutch Republic before 1750
- 4 France, the Antilles, and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: renewals of foreign trade
- 5 Productivity, profitability, and costs of private and corporate Dutch ship owning in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- 6 The Dutch and English East India companies compared: evidence from the stock and foreign exchange markets
- 7 World bullion flows, 1450–1800
- 8 Merchant communities, 1350–1750
- 9 Economic aspects of the eighteenth-century Atlantic slave trade
- 10 Marginalization, stagnation, and growth: the trans-Saharan caravan trade in the era of European expansion, 1500–1900
- 11 The “decline” of the central Asian caravan trade
- 12 Merchant communities in precolonial India
- 13 Merchants without empire: the Hokkien sojourning communities
- Index
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- The Rise of Merchant EmpiresLong Distance Trade in the Early Modern World 1350–1750, pp. x - xviiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990