Introduction

Although these essays concentrate on merchant initiatives, they are themselves innovative perspectives on early modern economic life and previews of substantial scholarly work in progress. Most new European trading ventures of the early modern period were not spectacular initiatives to exotic people...

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Main Author: Steele, Ian K.
Format: Book Part
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Published: Liverpool University Press 1998
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North Atlantic
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9780968128855.003.0001
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