The Rise of Merchant Empires
Subtitle: Long Distance Trade in the Early Modern World 13501750 (Studies in Comparative Early Modern History)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 27, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780521382106
Subjects: International Trade; World history; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; History: American; History; History / Renaissance; Congresses; Merchants; Shipping
First sentence: THE European long-distance re-export trade has not yet been the object of much quantitative research for the period of the late Middle Ages and early modern period.