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The Political economy of merchant empires
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- Creator
- James D. Tracy, editor
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991
- Physical Details
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- vi, 504 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521410465, 0521410460
- OCLC
- ocm23219794
- Essays originally prepared for a conference on the rise of merchant empires, organized by the Center for Early Modern History, Oct. 1987.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-486) and index.
- Institutions, transaction costs, and the rise of merchant empires / Douglass C. North -- Merchants and states / M.N. Pearson -- The rise of merchant empires, 1400-1700 : a European counterpoint / Thomas A. Brady, Jr. -- Europe and the wider world, 1500-1700 : the military balance/ Geoffrey Parker -- The pirate and the emperor : power and the law on the seas, 1450-1850 / Anne Pérotin-Dumon -- Transport costs and long-range trade, 1300-1800 : was there a European "Transport Revolution" in the early modern era? / Russell R. Menard -- Transaction costs : a note on merchant credit and the organization of private trade / Jacob M. Price -- Evolution of empire : the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean during the sixteenth century / Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Luís Filipe F.R. Thomaz -- Comparing the Tokagawa Shogunate with Hapsburg Spain : twosilver-based empires in a global setting / Dennis O. Flynn -- Colonies as mercantile investments : the Luso-Brazilian Empire, 1500-1808 / José Jobson de Andrade Arruda -- Reflections on the organizing principle of premodern trade / K.N. Chaudhuri