Premodern Trade in World History - Richard L. Smith

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Premodern Trade in World History Trade and commerce are among the oldest, most pervasive, and most important of human activities ...

Themes in World History Series Editor: Peter N. Stearns TheThemes in World Historyseries offers focused treatment of a range of ...

Premodern Trade in World History Richard L. Smith ...

First published 2009 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Ca ...

For Kathleen Charpentier Smith My wife and partner in work and life ...

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Contents Preface viii 1 Some introductory musings Acknowledgments xi 2 In the beginning 3 Thefirst link 4 Land of gold 5 Into t ...

Preface Teachers of survey courses in world history have become increasingly aware of the need for suitable supplemental reading ...

taxing trade and in return provided protection and built roads. At the same time maritime commerce brought shiploads of goods by ...

changes that occurred between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Since this book concerns the development of the premodern ...

Acknowledgments I would like to thank Peggie Barker and Cheryl Hundley of Stanley Library at Ferrum College for the cheery year- ...

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Chapter 1 Some introductory musings On the business of business Exchange is a form of interchange between individuals or groups. ...

A gift could be repaid in many ways. If it was given from a superior to a subordinate, the return was usually in the form of ser ...

natural resources, such as metal, was the most important factor in deter- mining imports and exports. As a society with a desira ...

than the exchange level. Losses to the trader were mostly the result of mis- fortune–the death of pack animals, the sinking of a ...

premodern trade. Markets in which prices were set by supply and demand and evidence of private capital accumulation, investment, ...

economies were generally larger than the political entities that were con- tained within them. Not everyone has joined the world ...

elucidate it. Strict theoretical positions may be interesting intellectual con- structs to those smitten by the logic or beauty ...