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: October 29, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780521457354
Subjects: Economic History; International Trade; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; History - General History; Shipping; History: World; East Asia, Far East; Asia - General; Europe - General; Business & Economics-Economic History; History / Europe / General; History / Renaissance; History-Asia - General; Far East; Congresses; History; Merchants
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.