This volume examines the rise of the many different trading empires from the end of the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century.

This book focuses on why Europe became the dominant economic force in global trade between 1450 and 1750.

We are what we eat: this aphorism contains a profound truth about civilization, one that has played out on the world historical stage over many millennia of hum

Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world It was an era when monopoly trading companies wer

A new history of English trade and empire—revealing how a tightly woven community of merchants was the true origin of globalized Britain In the century follow