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BL
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680199
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b502388
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The Rise of merchant empires : : long-distance trade in the early modern world, 1350-1750 /\ edited by James D. Tracy.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1990.
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| Series Statement
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Studies in comparative early modern history.
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ix, 442 p. [8] p. of plates :: ill., maps ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0521382106
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: 0521457351 (pbk.)
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: 9780521382106
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: 9780521457354 (pbk.)
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| Notes
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Essays originally prepared for distribution and discussion at a conference sponsored by the Center for Early Modern History at the University of Minnesota in Oct. 1987.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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-- World bullion flows, 1450-1800 / Ward Barrett -- Merchant communities, 1350-1750 / Frédéric Mauro -- Economic aspects of the eighteenth-century Atlantic slave trade / Herbert S. Klein -- Marginalization, stagnation, and growth : the trans-Saharan caravan trade in the era of European expansion, 1500-1900 / Ralph A. Austen -- The "decline" of the central Asian caravan trade / Morris Rossabi -- Merchant communities in precolonial India / Irfan Habib -- Merchants without empire : the Hokkien sojourning communities / Wang Gungwu.
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Introduction / James D. Tracy -- Structural changes in European long-distance trade, and particularly in the re-export trade from south to north, 1350-1750 / Herman van der Wee -- The growth and composition of trade in the Iberian empires, 1450-1750 / Carla Rahn Phillips -- The growth and composition of the long-distance trade of England and the Dutch Republic before 1750 / Niels Steensgaard -- France, the Antilles, and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : renewals of foreign trade / Paul Butel -- Productivity, profitability, and costs of private and corporate Dutch ship owning in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Jaap R. Bruijn -- The Dutch and English East India companies compared : evidence from the stock and foreign exchange markets / Larry Neal.
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| Subject
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International trade-- History, Congresses.
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Merchants-- History, Congresses.
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Shipping-- History, Congresses.
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Europe, Commerce, History, Congresses.
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| Dewey Classification
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382/.09
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HF1379.R57 1990
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Tracy, James D.
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University of Minnesota., Center for Early Modern History.
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