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A work of major importance for the economic history of both Europe and North America.
Author : David Ormrod
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,96 MB
Release : 2003-03-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521819268
A work of major importance for the economic history of both Europe and North America.
Author : Robert S. Lopez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 11,85 MB
Release : 1976-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521290463
Roman and barbarian precedents The growth of self-centered agriculture The take-off of the commerical revolution The uneven diffusion of commercialization Between crafts and industry The response of the agricultural society.
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Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,5 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Aids to navigation
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Author : Ralph Davis
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801491436
The Rise of the Atlantic Economies surveys the economic history of Spain, the Netherlands, France, and England and of the colonies they established, or had dealings with, in North and South America from the beginnings of Portuguese exploration in the fifteenth century to the American Revolution.
Author : Adam Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 23,54 MB
Release : 1801
Category : Commerce
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Author : Silvia A. Conca Messina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 042964888X
Why was early modern Europe the starting point of the economic expansion which led to the Industrial Revolution? What was the state’s role in this momentous transformation? A History of States and Economic Policies in Early Modern Europe takes a comparative approach to answer these questions, demonstrating that wars, public finance and state intervention in the economy were the key elements underlying European economic dynamics of the era. Structured in two parts, the book begins by examining the central issues of the state–economy relationship, including military revolution, the fiscal state and public finance, mercantilism, the formation of commercial empires and the economic war between Britain and France in the 1700s. The second part presents a detailed comparison between the different economic policies of the most important European states, looking at their unique demographic, economic, military and institutional contexts. Taken as a whole, this work provides a valuable analysis of early modern economic history and a picture of Europe’s global position on the eve of the Industrial Revolution. This book will be useful to students and researchers of economic history, early modern history and European history.
Author : Kimberly J. Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 131684188X
The state is central to social scientific and historical inquiry today, reflecting its importance in domestic and international affairs. States kill, coerce, fight, torture, and incarcerate, yet they also nurture, protect, educate, redistribute, and invest. It is precisely because of the complexity and wide-ranging impacts of states that research on them has proliferated and diversified. Yet, too many scholars inhabit separate academic silos, and theorizing of states has become dispersed and disjointed. This book aims to bridge some of the many gaps between scholarly endeavors, bringing together scholars from a diverse array of disciplines and perspectives who study states and empires. The book offers not only a sample of cutting-edge research that can serve as models and directions for future work, but an original conceptualization and theorization of states, their origins and evolution, and their effects.
Author : James D. Tracy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 26,55 MB
Release : 1997-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521574648
This book focuses on why Europe became the dominant economic force in global trade between 1450 and 1750.
Author : Jonathan Barth
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,41 MB
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501755781
In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas. The export-oriented mercantile economy promoted by the English Crown, Barth argues, directed the plan for colonization, the regulation of colonial commerce, and the politics of empire. The imperial project required an orderly flow of gold and silver, and thus England's colonial regime required stringent monetary regulation. As Barth shows, money was also a flash point for resistance; many colonists acutely resented their subordinate economic station, desiring for their local economies a robust, secure, and uniform money supply. This placed them immediately at odds with the mercantilist laws of the empire and precipitated an imperial crisis in the 1670s, a full century before the Declaration of Independence. The Currency of Empire examines what were a series of explosive political conflicts in the seventeenth century and demonstrates how the struggle over monetary policy prefigured the patriot reaction to the Stamp Act and so-called Intolerable Acts on the eve of American independence. Thanks to generous funding from the Arizona State University and George Mason University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.
Author : H. V. Bowen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 29,53 MB
Release : 2005-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1139447882
The Business of Empire assesses the domestic impact of British imperial expansion by analysing what happened in Britain following the East India Company's acquisition of a vast territorial empire in South Asia. Drawing on a mass of hitherto unused material contained in the company's administrative and financial records, the book offers a reconstruction of the inner workings of the company as it made the remarkable transition from business to empire during the late-eighteenth century. H. V. Bowen profiles the company's stockholders and directors and examines how those in London adapted their methods, working practices, and policies to changing circumstances in India. He also explores the company's multifarious interactions with the domestic economy and society, and sheds important new light on its substantial contributions to the development of Britain's imperial state, public finances, military strength, trade and industry. This book will appeal to all those interested in imperial, economic and business history.