The Voyage of the ‘Frolic’: New England Merchants and the Opium Trade 9781503616417

The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia 9781501703973

In The Merchants of Siberia, Erika Monahan reconsiders commerce in early modern Russia by reconstructing the trading wor

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From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa 9780520947573

Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence

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From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: the global trade networks of Armenian merchants from New Julfa 9780520266872, 9780520282179, 9780520947573

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Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade 9780300271768

A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave trade

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The Opium War

1839. Trade is the stalwart of the British Empire. China threatens Britain’s Opium trade. Britain and China go to war.

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The Voyage of the Beagle

In 1831, the twenty-two-year old Charles Darwin embarked on the Royal Navy ship H.M.S. Beagle as it set off on what was

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The Merchants Adventurers and the Continental Cloth-trade (1560s–1620s) [Reprint 2016 ed.] 9783110893076, 9783110125825

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Eastern Customs: The Customs Service in British Malaya and the Opium Trade 9780755692620, 9781850438441

Generations of young Britons made their careers in Malaya. Some scaled the heights of the administrative service and are

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Provisioning Paris: Merchants and Millers in the Grain and Flour Trade during the Eighteenth Century 9781501731426

Dependence upon grain deeply marked every aspect of life in eighteenth-century France. Steven Kaplan focuses upon this d

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Peasants, Merchants, and Markets: Inland Trade in Medieval England, 1150-1350 0312160356

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