An account of eighteenth-century global commerce as seen through the lives of three Scottish traders, “written with verve and filled with arresting details”
An illuminating account of global commerce in the eighteenth-century Indian Ocean world as seen through the lives of three Scottish traders This book delves int
In the late eighteenth century, the political economist Adam Smith predicted an eventual equalization of power between the West and the territories it had conqu
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