{"product_id":"the-political-economy-of-merchant-empires-state-power-and-world-trade-1350-1750-hardback-9780521410465","title":"The Political Economy of Merchant Empires; State Power and World Trade, 1350–1750 (Hardback) 9780521410465","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Political Economy of Merchant Empires\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eState Power and World Trade, 1350–1750\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book focuses on why Europe became the dominant economic force in global trade between 1450 and 1750.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames D. Tracy (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521410465, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 October 1991\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e516 pages, 8 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.8 x 3.6 cm, 0.911 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The contributors to The Political Economy of Merchant Empires are among the most prominent of those scholars who have produced during the past five or six years a remarkably impressive literature on what used to be called the 'Expansion of Europe.'...[This book] is an unusually fine collection of summary articles on a very important general theme.\"   Edwin J. Van Kley, Journal of Modern History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe Political Economy of Merchant Empires focuses on why European concerns eventually achieved dominance in global trade in the period between 1450 and 1750, at the expense, especially in Asia, of well-organised and well-financed rivals. The volume is a companion to The Rise of Merchant Empires, also edited by James Tracy, which dealt with changes in the growth and composition of long-distance trade during the same period.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction James D. Tracy\u003cbr\u003e 1. Institutions, transaction costs and the rise of merchant empires Douglass C. North\u003cbr\u003e 2. Merchants and states M. N. Pearson\u003cbr\u003e 3. The rise of merchant empires, 1400–1700: a European counterpoint Thomas A. Brady Jr\u003cbr\u003e 4. Europe and the wider world, 1500–1700: the military balance Geoffrey Parker\u003cbr\u003e 5. The pirate and the emperor: power and the law on the seas, 1450–1850 Anne Pérotin-Dumon\u003cbr\u003e 6. Transport costs and long-range trade, 1300–1800: was there a European 'transport revolution' in the early modern era? Russell R. Menard\u003cbr\u003e 7. Transaction costs: a note on merchant credit and the organization of private trade Jacob M. Price\u003cbr\u003e 8. Evolution of empire: the Portuguese in the Indian ocean during the sixteenth century Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Luís Felipe F. R. Thomaz\u003cbr\u003e 9. Comparing the Tokagawa Shogunate with Hapsburg Spain: two silver-based empires in a global setting Dennis O. Flynn\u003cbr\u003e 10. Colonies as mercantile investments: the Luso-Brazilian empire, 1500–1808 José Jobson de Andrade Arruda\u003cbr\u003e 11. Reflections on the organizing principle of pre-modern trade K. N. Chaudhuri\u003cbr\u003e Selected bibliography of secondary works\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Economic history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Economic history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Economic%20history%20%5BKCZ%5D%22\"\u003eKCZ\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004756971800,"sku":"9780521410465","price":97.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521410465i_872ca354-ef95-48b4-b5b3-701b846812ef.jpg?v=1691381279","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-political-economy-of-merchant-empires-state-power-and-world-trade-1350-1750-hardback-9780521410465","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}