The Asian Trade Revolution : The East India Companies and the Decline of the Caravan Trade /

In this work Neils Steensgaard combines an analytical economic approach with detailed historic scholarship to provide an imaginitive and important analysis of a central incident in modern world history. The event is the breaking of the Portuguese monopoly on Asian trade in the seventeenth century by...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Steensgaard, Niels (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]
Temas:
Commerce > Histoire.
Commerce > History.
HISTORY / General.
east india companies, caravan trade, asia, asian, economics, economy, history, historical, world, international, transnational, portugal, england, netherlands, exchange, mercantile, routes, entrepreneurial capitalism, 17th century, political, politics, power, failure, hormuz, institutional weakness, change, commerce, europe, colonialism, persian gulf, dominance, monopoly.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Maps
  • Diagram
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Fall of Hormuz, a Comparative Study
  • Introduction
  • Chapter I. The Peddling Trade
  • Chapter II. The Redistributive Enterprizes
  • Chapter III. The Companies
  • Chapter IV. The Fall of Hormuz
  • Part II. The Loss of Hormuz. People and Events
  • Introduction
  • Chapter V. The Dream of a Great Alliance
  • Chapter VI. Hormuz is the Question
  • Chapter VII. The Loss of Hormuz
  • Part III. After Hormuz
  • Chapter VIII. The Losers
  • Chapter IX. The Attempt at Redirection of the Silk Trade
  • Chapter X. Instead of Hormuz
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix. Currency and Weights
  • Manuscript Sources
  • Printed Sources and Modern Works
  • Index

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