British Imperialism in a Mercantilist Age, 1492–1849: Conceptual Issues and Empirical Problems
Writing on the eve of one of the major transformations in the British Empire, Adam Smith more or less repeated the remark made by the Abbé Raynal several years earlier that «the discovery of America, and that of passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most impor...
| Published in: | Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
1998
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0212610900007102 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0212610900007102 |