{"product_id":"the-rise-of-merchant-empires-9780521457354","title":"The Rise of Merchant Empires","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEuropean dominance of the shipping lanes in the early modern period was a prelude to the great age of European imperial power, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet in the present age of a new global interdependence we can see that the pre-imperial age was in fact more an age of partnership or an age of competition when Westerners and Asians vied on even terms. The essays in this volume examine on a global basis the many different trading empires from the end of the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It provides an excellent starting point for those who seek to understand the economic relationship between Europe and the rest of the world and adds considerably to our understanding of long-distance trade in the early modern period.' Teaching History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements; Introduction James D. Tracy; 1. Structural changes in European long-distance trade, and particularly in the re-export trade from south to north, 1350–1750 Herman van der Wee; 2. The growth and composition of trade in the Iberian empires, 1450–1740 Carla Rahn Phillips; 3. The growth and composition of the long-distance trade of England and the Dutch republic before 1750 Niels Ateensgaard; 4. France, the Antilles, and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: renewals of trade Paul Butel; 5. Productivity, profitability and costs of private and corporate Dutch shipping in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Jaap R. Bruijn; 6. The Dutch and English East India Companies compared: evidence from the stock and foreign exchange markets Larry Neal; 7. World bullion flows, 1450–1800 Ward Barrett; 8. Merchant communities (1350–1750) Frederic Mauro; 9. Economic aspects of the eighteenth century Atlantic slave trade Herbert S. Klein; 10. Marginalisation, stagnation, and growth: the trans-Saharan caravan trade in the era of European expansion, 1500–1800 Ralph A. Austen; 11. The 'decline' of the central Asian caravan trade Morris Rossabi; 12. Merchant communities in pre-colonial India Irfan Habib; 13. Merchants without empire: the Hokkien sojourning communities Wang Gungwu.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767664902487,"sku":"9780521457354","price":42.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780521457354.jpg?v=1758714274","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-rise-of-merchant-empires-9780521457354","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}