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The corsairs of Saint-Malo network organization of a merchant elite under the Ancien Régime

"Western Europe rose in global power during the early modern period as overseas expansion opened new trade routes. At the same time, intense rivalries pitted European states against one another in recurrent wars. Henning Hillmann examines the merchant community of Saint-Malo, Brittany, a key po...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hillmann, Henning (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York Columbia University Press [2021]
Colección:Middle range.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Saint-Malo in the French Atlantic economy
  • Social sources of economic growth
  • The course : its origins & organization
  • Returns to privateering
  • Dynamics of partnership networks
  • The rise of new men
  • The coming of the revolution