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Essays originally prepared for a conference on the rise of merchant empires, organized by the Center for Early Modern History, Oct. 1987.

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Studies in comparative early modern history

Institutions, transaction costs, and the rise of merchant empires / Douglass C. North

Merchants and states / M.N. Pearson

The rise of merchant empires, 1400-1700 : a European counterpoint / Thomas A. Brady, Jr.

Europe and the wider world, 1500-1700 : the military balance / Geoffrey Parker

The pirate and the emperor : power and the law on the seas, 1450-1850 / Anne Pérotin-Dumon

Transport costs and long-range trade, 1300-1800 : was there a European "Transport Revolution" in the early modern era? / Russell R. Menard

Transaction costs : a note on merchant credit and the organization of private trade / Jacob M. Price

Evolution of empire : the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean during the sixteenth century / Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Luís Filipe F.R. Thomaz

Comparing the Tokagawa Shogunate with Hapsburg Spain : two silver-based empires in a global setting / Dennis O. Flynn

Colonies as mercantile investments : the Luso-Brazilian Empire, 1500-1808 / José Jobson de Andrade Arruda

Reflections on the organizing principle of premodern trade / K.N. Chaudhuri.

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