Western Europe, Eastern Europe and world development, 13th-18th centuries
Subtitle: collection of essays of Marian Małowist
By: edited by Jean Batou and Henryk Szlajfer.
Contributors: Batou, Jean.; Szlajfer, Henryk.
Series: Studies in critical social sciences -- v. 16; Studies in critical social sciences -- v. 16.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9789004179172
Subjects: Economic development -- History; North and south -- History; Economic history -- Medieval, 500-1500; Economic history -- 16th century; Economic history -- 1600-1750; Europe, Western -- Economic conditions; Europe, Eastern -- Economic conditions; Europe, Western -- Relations -- Europe, Eastern; Europe, Eastern -- Relations -- Europe, Western; Europe -- Foreign economic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: "Marian Małowist : an appreciation" / Immanuel Wallerstein; title: Introduction: "I chased after Polish grain all over the world" / Jean Batou and Henryk Szlajfer; title: Commercial capitalism and agriculture; title: Merchant credit and the putting-out system : rural production during the Middle Ages; title: Some remarks on the role of merchant capital in Eastern Europe in the late Middle Ages; title: Kaffa : the Genoese colony in Crimea and the Eastern question (1453-1475); title: Levantine trade with Eastern Europe in the 16th Century : some problems; title: Poland, Russia and Western trade in the 15th and 16th centuries; title: The problem of the inequality of economic development in Europe in the later Middle Ages; title: Problems of the growth of the national economy of Central-Eastern Europe in the late Middle Ages; title: East and West Europe in the 13th-16th centuries : confrontation of social and economic structures; title: Economic and political divisions in medieval and early modern Europe; title: Eastern Europe and the countries of the Iberian Peninsula : parallels and contrasts; title: The social and economic stability of the Western Sudan in the Middle Ages; title: The Western Sudan in the Middle Ages : underdevelopment in the empires of the Western Sudan Hopkins-Małowist debate; title: Social and economic life in Timur's empire; title: New Saray, capital of the Golden Horde; title: The foundations of European expansion in Africa in the 16th century : Europe, Maghreb and Western Sudan; title: Portuguese expansion in Africa and European economy at the turn of the 15th century; title: Gulf of Guinea countries in the 15th and early 16th century.