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Making Mercantilism Work: London Merchants And Atlantic Trade in the Seventeenth Century
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 1999Authors of the surge of economic tracts and treatises published in late seventeenth-century England generally agreed that foreign trade underpinned the wealth, health, and strength of the nation. The merchant was hero the same to the body politick as the
Nuala Zahedieh
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Social capital, institutional innovation and Atlantic trade before 1800
, 2008The growth of the Atlantic economy during the eighteenth century has been associated with developments in business networking to mitigate the hazards of communication in long-distance trade. Such social capital-based mechanisms reduced transaction costs,
R. Pearson, D. Richardson
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The Journal of African History, 1994
Reconsiderant les conceptions economiques employees par E. van den Boogaart dans son article consacre au commerce des esclaves et des matieres premieres entre l'Atlantique et l'Afrique precoloniale et analysant de nouveaux chiffres sur la marchandise de ...
D. Eltis
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Reconsiderant les conceptions economiques employees par E. van den Boogaart dans son article consacre au commerce des esclaves et des matieres premieres entre l'Atlantique et l'Afrique precoloniale et analysant de nouveaux chiffres sur la marchandise de ...
D. Eltis
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2015
The Atlantic slave trade remained one of the least studied areas in modern Western historiography until the middle of the twentieth century. This late start was not due to any lack of sources, for the materials available for its study were abundant in both printed and manuscript form from the very beginning.
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The Atlantic slave trade remained one of the least studied areas in modern Western historiography until the middle of the twentieth century. This late start was not due to any lack of sources, for the materials available for its study were abundant in both printed and manuscript form from the very beginning.
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Slavery, Atlantic trade and the British economy, 1660-1800
, 2002The relationship between slavery, colonialism, capital accumulation and economic development has long been an issue that has exercised political economists and economic historians, though it is perhaps fair to say that it tends to be neglected in ...
T. Lockley
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2015
The Atlantic slave trade, which lasted from the mid-fifteenth century until the last quarter of the nineteenth century, was a distinctive event in both global history and the history of slavery. There have been, of course, other large coerced migrations in history, notably in the mid-twentieth century when millions of people in Europe and Asia were ...
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The Atlantic slave trade, which lasted from the mid-fifteenth century until the last quarter of the nineteenth century, was a distinctive event in both global history and the history of slavery. There have been, of course, other large coerced migrations in history, notably in the mid-twentieth century when millions of people in Europe and Asia were ...
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The Economics of the Atlantic Slave Trade [PDF]
, 1992 Trout J. Rader III is an economist with an impressive range. He is unique among mathematical economists in terms of his interests in the Protestant ethic1 and in the economics of feudalism and slavery, 2 and unique among development economists in terms of his reliance on rigorous economic theory and in the importance he gives to purely technical issues
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Witchcraft Beliefs as a Cultural Legacy of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Evidence from Two Continents
European Economic Review, 2019This paper argues that the historical slave trade contributed to the propagation of persistent witchcraft beliefs on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean and establishes two key empirical patterns.
B. Gershman
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Shipping Patterns and the Atlantic Trade of Bristol, 1749-1770
, 1989HIPPING was the lifeblood of the Atlantic economy in the eighteenth century; shipping patterns were the arteries through which the merchants and commodities of the North Atlantic trading world were drawn together into an international commercial network.
K. Morgan.
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The Greeks and Ancient Trade with the Atlantic
The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1924Ancient trade between Mediterranean lands and Atlantic Europe was first and foremost a quest by Mediterranean folk for tin, of which the indigenous supplies were insufficient. In this quest the Greeks had a vital interest, in view of the great development of their bronze industry. What actual part did they take in the Atlantic tin traffic?This question
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