ENGLISH

The Rise of Merchant Empires: Long Distance Trade in the Early Modern World 1350-1750 (Studies in Comparative Early Modern History)

By James D. Tracy

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1993
ISBN
0521457351, 9780521457354, 0521382106, 9780521382106
LCC
HF1379 .R57 1990
Google Books ID
heEdZziizrUC
Open Library ID
OL2206050M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
23 MB (23630012 bytes)
Series
Studies in Comparative Early Modern History
Pages
461\461
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

European dominance of the shipping lanes in the early modern period was a prelude to the great age of European imperial power in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet in the present age we can see that the pre-imperial age was in fact more an 'age of partnership' or an 'age of competition' when the West and Asia vied on even terms. The essays in this volume examine, on a global basis, the many different trading empires from the end of the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century.

Similar books