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Russia's foreign trade and economic expansion in the seventeenth century : windows on the world /

This study is the first comprehensive assessment of Russia's commercial relations with the outside world in the seventeenth century and of the relationship between trade and economic growth. Based on exhaustive research in some thirty archival repositories, it represents the first systematic qu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kotilaine, Jarmo
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
Series:Northern world ; v. 13.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the rise of Russian foreign trade int the 17th century
  • Points of encounter: Russia's outlets to the world markets
  • Demand-driven trade
  • The Russian supply response
  • The evolution of the Arctic route
  • The changing fortunes of the Baltic route
  • On the significance of cross-border trade
  • New horizons: Russian trade with Asia and south-eastern Europe
  • Conclusions: midwives of an empire.