Merchants & scholars
Subtitle: essays in the history of exploration and trade.
By: Collected in memory of James Ford Bell and edited by John Parker.
Contributors: Bell, James Ford, 1879-1961.; Parker, John, 1923- ed.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 1965
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Commerce -- History.; Discoveries in geography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"A publication from the James Ford Bell Collection."
Table of contents: title: Introduction, by J. Parker.; title: Geography in fifteenth century Florence, by T. Goldstein.; title: The discoveries and the humanists, by E.F. Hirsch.; title: Coromandel trade in medieval India, by B. Stein.; title: The Van Deutecum map of Russian and Tartary, by J.W. Webb.; title: Henry Hudson and the early exploration and mapping of Hudson Bay, 1610 to 1631, by E.C. Abbe and F.J. Gillis.; title: England and the St. Lawrence, 1577 to 1602, by D.B. Quinn.; title: Caribbean sugar-production standards in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by W. Barrett.; title: Slaves for the galleys of France, 1665 to 1700, by P.W. Bamford.; title: English enterprise in the region of the Strait of Magellan, by H. Wallis.; title: De Lozier Bouvet and mercantilist expansion in the Pacific in 1740, by O.H.K. Spate.