Description
The 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.
Chapter
ASIAN RESPONSES TO THE MERCHANT EMPIRES
CHAPTER 3 The rise of merchant empires, 1400-1700: A European counterpoint
MERCHANT EMPIRES AND EUROPEAN HISTORY
ENGLAND, EUROPE, THE WEST: A SYNECDOCHE
THE COMMUNAL WAY - ALTERNATIVE TO THE STATE?
THE STATE AS MILITARY ENTERPRISE
CHAPTER 4 Europe and the wider world, 1500-1750: the military balance.*
CHAPTER 5 The pirate and the emperor: power and the law on the seas, 1450-1850
CHAPTER 6 Transport costs and long-range trade, 1300-1800: Was there a European "transport revolution" in the early modern era?
THE SPICE TRADE, 1600-1775.
ENGLAND'S NORTH ATLANTIC EMPIRE, 1600-1775.
CHAPTER 7 Transaction costs: A note on merchant credit and the organization of private trade
CHAPTER 8 Evolution of empire: The Portuguese in the Indian Ocean during the sixteenth century
CHAPTER 9 Comparing the Tokagawa Shogunate with Hapsburg Spain: Two silver-based empires in a global setting
THE EMERGENCE OF THE FIRST GLOBAL MARKET
A WORLD OF INTERCONNECTED SILVER MARKETS
SUMMARY AND FURTHER SPECULATIONS
CHAPTER 10 Colonies as mercantile investments: The Luso-Brazilian empire, 1500-1808
THE CONCEPT OF A COLONIAL SYSTEM
SYSTEMATIC COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT
THE NEW SYSTEM OF COLONIZATION
CHAPTER 11 Reflections on the organizing principle of premodern trade
THE RATIONALE OF PREMODERN TRADE
THEORETICAL EXPLANATIONS OF LONG DISTANCETRADE: RICARDO, BRAUDEL, WALLERSTEIN, AND POLANYI
THE TYPOLOGY OF TRADE, ATTITUDE TOWARDS MERCHANTS, AND THE CONCEPT OF ECONOMIC VALUE
THE TRADING CITY-STATES AND THE TERRITORIAL EMPIRES: TWO DIFFERING MODELS
UNFAVORABLE IMAGE OF MERCHANTS
THE LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATIONS OF PREMODERN TRADE: FROM TRAVELING MERCHANTS TO JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES
THE STRUCTURING PRINCIPLE OF LONG-DISTANCE TRADE AND THE UNITY OF DISCOURSE
Select bibliography of secondary works
I I . EUROPE FROM EXPANSION TO HEGEMONY
I I I . EUROPEAN TRADE; EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN
IV. EUROPEAN OVERSEAS TRADE: GENERAL
V. EUROPEAN OVERSEAS TRADE: THE ATLANTIC WORLD
VI. EUROPEAN OVERSEAS TRADE: ASIA
VII. MONEY, BULLION FLOWS
VIII. SHIPS, GUNS, AND PIRATES
X. SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY
XI. HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
XIII. BRITISH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
The Political Economy of Merchant Empires
：State Power and World Trade, 1350–1750
( Studies in Comparative Early Modern History )
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