The Rise of Merchant Empires: Long-Distance Trade in the Early Modern World, 1350-1750

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Acknowledgements Introduction James D. Tracy 1. Structural changes in European long-distance trade, and particularly in the re-export trade from south to north, 1350-1750 Herman van der Wee 2. The growth and composition of trade in the Iberian empires, 1450-1740 Carla Rahn Phillips 3. The growth and composition of the long-distance trade of England and the Dutch republic before 1750 Niels Ateensgaard 4. France, the Antilles, and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: renewals of trade Paul Butel 5. Productivity, profitability and costs of private and corporate Dutch shipping in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Jaap R. Bruijn 6. The Dutch and English East India Companies compared: evidence from the stock and foreign exchange markets Larry Neal 7. World bullion flows, 1450-1800 Ward Barrett 8. Merchant communities (1350-1750) Frederic Mauro 9. Economic aspects of the eighteenth century Atlantic slave trade Herbert S. Klein 10. Marginalisation, stagnation, and growth: the trans-Saharan caravan trade in the era of European expansion, 1500-1800 Ralph A. Austen 11. The 'decline' of the central Asian caravan trade Morris Rossabi 12. Merchant communities in pre-colonial India Irfan Habib 13. Merchants without empire: the Hokkien sojourning communities Wang Gungwu.