[PDF] The Political Economy Of Merchant Empires eBook

Author : James D. Tracy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 1997-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521574648

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This book focuses on why Europe became the dominant economic force in global trade between 1450 and 1750.

Author : James D. Tracy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521457354

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This volume examines the rise of the many different trading empires from the end of the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century.

Author : Sophus A. Reinert
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 33,87 MB
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674063236

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Historians have traditionally used the discourses of free trade and laissez faire to explain the development of political economy during the Enlightenment. But from Sophus Reinert’s perspective, eighteenth-century political economy can be understood only in the context of the often brutal imperial rivalries then unfolding in Europe and its former colonies and the positive consequences of active economic policy. The idea of economic emulation was the prism through which philosophers, ministers, reformers, and even merchants thought about economics, as well as industrial policy and reform, in the early modern period. With the rise of the British Empire, European powers and others sought to selectively emulate the British model. In mapping the general history of economic translations between 1500 and 1849, and particularly tracing the successive translations of the Bristol merchant John Cary’s seminal 1695 Essay on the State of England, Reinert makes a compelling case for the way that England’s aggressively nationalist policies, especially extensive tariffs and other intrusive market interventions, were adopted in France, Italy, Germany, and Scandinavia before providing the blueprint for independence in the New World. Relatively forgotten today, Cary’s work served as the basis for an international move toward using political economy as the prime tool of policymaking and industrial expansion. Reinert’s work challenges previous narratives about the origins of political economy and invites the current generation of economists to reexamine the foundations, and future, of their discipline.

Author : David Ormrod
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 22,98 MB
Release : 2003-03-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521819268

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A work of major importance for the economic history of both Europe and North America.

Author : Zachary Dorner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 21,22 MB
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 022670680X

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The period from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century—the so-called long eighteenth century of English history—was a time of profound global change, marked by the expansion of intercontinental empires, long-distance trade, and human enslavement. It was also the moment when medicines, previously produced locally and in small batches, became global products. As greater numbers of British subjects struggled to survive overseas, more medicines than ever were manufactured and exported to help them. Most historical accounts, however, obscure the medicine trade’s dependence on slave labor, plantation agriculture, and colonial warfare. In Merchants of Medicines, Zachary Dorner follows the earliest industrial pharmaceuticals from their manufacture in the United Kingdom, across trade routes, and to the edges of empire, telling a story of what medicines were, what they did, and what they meant. He brings to life business, medical, and government records to evoke a vibrant early modern world of London laboratories, Caribbean estates, South Asian factories, New England timber camps, and ships at sea. In these settings, medicines were produced, distributed, and consumed in new ways to help confront challenges of distance, labor, and authority in colonial territories. Merchants of Medicines offers a new history of economic and medical development across early America, Britain, and South Asia, revealing the unsettlingly close ties among medicine, finance, warfare, and slavery that changed people’s expectations of their health and their bodies.

Author : Boris Kagarlitsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317668707

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Translated from the original Russian, this book analyzes the economic development of leading European empires and the United States of America. The author exposes the myths of the spontaneous emergence of the market economy and the role of government as a disincentive towards private initiative, when for centuries the state power has been carrying out a "coercing to the market" with all its strength. This book presents a somewhat epic depiction of the development of Western hegemonic powers within the capitalist world system, from the struggles of the late Middle Ages to the rise and crisis of the American Empire. It both develops and questions some of the traditional assumptions of the world-system theory, arguing that it was very much the political form of the state that shaped capitalism as we know it and that, though the existence of a hegemonic power results from the logic of the system, hegemony is often missing in reality. A major work of historical Marxist theory, this book is essential reading for students of international political economy, globalisation and the crisis of capitalism. This book is also ideal for students of politics, history, economics and international relations.

Author : Cathy D. Matson
Publisher :
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 37,25 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, the port of New Amsterdam--later New York--bustled with the activity of emergingcapitalism. MERCHANTS AND EMPIRE examines the attitudes and practices of New York's merchants and traders and offers vivid descriptions of their New York City environs. A compelling look at early America and old New York, sure to interest students and scholars of economic history. 12 illustrations.