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Provides a detailed picture of the lives of the commanders and those around them, both at home and at sea. An original and evocative window onto the lives of me
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The rivalry for trade in tea and textiles between the English and Dutch East India companies is very much a global history. This trade is strongly connected to
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Using comparative and long-term perspectives the seventeen essays in this collection discuss the development of labor relations and labor migrations in Europe,
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It is not often recognized that China was one of the few places in the early modern world where all merchants had equal access to the market. This study shows t