Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- 1 Trade diasporas and cross-cultural trade
- 2 Africa: incentives to trade, patterns of competition
- 3 Africa: traders and trade communities
- 4 Ancient trade
- 5 A new trade axis: the Mediterranean to China, circa 200 B.C. – A.D. 1000
- 6 Asian trade in Eastern seas, 1000–1500
- 7 The European entry into the trade of maritime Asia
- 8 Bugis, banians, and Chinese: Asian traders in the era of the great companies
- 9 Overland trade of the seventeenth century: Armenian carriers between Europe and East Asia
- 10 The North American fur trade
- 11 The twilight of the trade diasporas
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- 1 Trade diasporas and cross-cultural trade
- 2 Africa: incentives to trade, patterns of competition
- 3 Africa: traders and trade communities
- 4 Ancient trade
- 5 A new trade axis: the Mediterranean to China, circa 200 B.C. – A.D. 1000
- 6 Asian trade in Eastern seas, 1000–1500
- 7 The European entry into the trade of maritime Asia
- 8 Bugis, banians, and Chinese: Asian traders in the era of the great companies
- 9 Overland trade of the seventeenth century: Armenian carriers between Europe and East Asia
- 10 The North American fur trade
- 11 The twilight of the trade diasporas
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Cross-Cultural Trade in World History , pp. 255 - 274Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1984
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