Italian businessmen played a key role in both international trade and finance from the Middle Ages until the first decades of the seventeenth century. While the
Exploring reason of state in a global monarchy, The Power of Necessity examines how thinkers and agents in the Spanish monarchy navigated the tension between po
Markets emerge in recent historical research as important spheres of economic interaction in ancient societies. In the case of ancient Egypt, traditional models
A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance It
This collective volume explores the ways merchants managed to connect different spaces all over the globe in the early modern period by organizing the movement