| Spinning the Commercial Web: International Trade, Merchants, and Commercial Cities, C. 1640-1939 Contributor(s): Beerbuhl, Margrit Schulte (Editor), Vogele, Jorg (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0820464481 ISBN-13: 9780820464480 Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing OUR PRICE: $59.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Business & Economics | International - General |
| Dewey: 382.090 |
| LCCN: 2004063200 |
| Physical Information: 395 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The central issues in recent economic and historical research and debates on the emergence of a global economy are: How and when did the development of an economic world system start? What were the essential economic, social or cultural factors which contributed to the emergence of a world-encompassing commercial network? The book examines the expansion of commercial activities since the seventeenth century by analysing the various facets of commercial networking and their linkages at three different operational levels and for various countries and regions. The first part focuses on the emergence, decline and reconstruction of whole networks. The second part provides an actor-centered approach highlighting the role of actors, agencies and institutions in the networking process, while the third one explores the role of commercial cities as merger of global and local functions. The essays provide an innovative approach as they elaborate the interplay between different levels of the emerging world economy. The contributions to this book were originally delivered at a conference organized in Dusseldorf, 07-09 March 2002. The selected essays in this volume offer an international and interdisciplinary approach to the complex and multi-layered process of the expansion of the economic world system. |
