Merchants, Companies and Trade: Europe and Asia in the Early Modern Era

Book Overview

The main objective of this book is to dispel some of the conventionally-held views surrounding trade between Europe and Asia in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. For instance, through a comparative and comprehensive study of merchant communities, markets and commodities, the individual authors demonstrate that Asian merchants were in no way inferior to Europeans in terms of their commercial operations and business acumen. The book as a whole...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521037476
• ISBN13: 9780521037471
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"