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...Lawrence A. Harper English Merchant Shipping, 1460-1540 . By Burwash Dorothy . ( Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 1947 . Pp. xii , 259 . $3.50 .) Copyright 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 ...

...Xabier Lamikiz Abstract This article takes a fresh look at merchant networks that linked Spain and colonial Peru in the central decades of the eighteenth century. Spain’s trade with its American colonies has been studied primarily in the light of mercantilistic policies design to revive...

...Charles E. Chapman The Spanish Guild, Merchant, a History of the Consulado, 1250-1700 . By Smith Robert Sidney . ( Durham : Duke University Press , 1940 . Pp. xii , 167 . $2.50 .) Copyright 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 ...

... modern merchants and trade will enjoy it. Scholars and students interested in Latin American history will be disappointed that none of the chapters deals with the Americas. Considering that the book is part of the Brill series entitled European Expansion and Indigenous Response, one would have...

...Benjamin Keen Robert Oliver, Merchant of Baltimore 1783-1819 . By Bruchey Stuart Weems . Baltimore, Maryland , 1956 . The Johns Hopkins Press . The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Series LXXIV, No. 1 . Frontispiece. Tables. Appendices...

...Donald Rowland The Larkin Papers: Personal, Business, and Official Correspondence of Thomas Oliver Larkin, Merchant and United States Consul in California . Volume I : 1822-1842 . Volume II : 1843-1844 . Volume III : 1845 . Volume IV : 1845-1846 . Berkeley and Los Angeles , 1951...

...Irene D. Neu John Owens. Manchester Merchant . By Clapp B. W. . Manchester, Eng. , 1965 . Manchester University Press . Illustrations. Tables. Appendices. Index . Pp. 193 . Copyright 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 The title of this book does less than justice...

...D. M. P. Enterprise & Empire: Merchant and Gentry Investment in the Expansion of England 1575-1630 . By Rabb Theodore K. . Cambridge, Massachusetts , 1967 . Harvard University Press . Tables. Bibliography. Appendix. Index . Pp. xii , 420 . $12.50 . Copyright 1968 by Duke...

...Stanley J. Stein The Political Economy of Merchant Empires: State Power and World Trade, 1350-2750 . Edited by Tracy James D . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1991 . Notes. Tables. Charts. Graphs. Bibliography. Index . xiv , 352 pp. Cloth . $39.95 . Copyright 1993...

...Hilame J. Heath Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 R eferring to the problems raised by the house correspondence of business firms, historian Robert Greenhill wrote, “No merchant willingly admits that he is doing well: he is much more likely to grumble about goods badly sold than...

...Stanley J. Stein Mexico’s Merchant Elite, 1590–1660: Silver, State, and Society . By Hoberman Louisa Schell . Durham : Duke University Press , 1991 . Tables. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiv , 352 pp. Cloth . $39.95 . Copyright 1993 by Duke University...

... Silverstein seems adamant that equation of Jews with foreign investors “need not have anything to do with whether or not its target is empirically Jewish,” I kept wondering if any of the recent British émigrés in Cuba were in fact Anglo-Jewish merchants escaping the collapsing economies in the British West...

...Jack D. L. Holmes The Merchant of Manchac: The Letterbooks of John Fitzpatrick, 1768-1790 . Edited by Dalrymple Margaret Fisher . Baton Rouge , 1978 . Louisiana State University Press . Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xii , 451 . Cloth. $30.00...

...Murdo J. Macleod Veracruz Merchants, 1770–1829: A Merchant Elite in Late Bourbon and Early Independent Mexico . By Booker Jackie R. . Boulder : Westview Press , 1993 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xxi, 191 pp. Paper . $47.50 . Copyright...

...Jonathan I. Israel The Rise of Merchant Empires: Long-Distance Trade in the Early Modern World, 1350-1750 . Edited by Tracy James D. . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1990 . Graphs. Maps. Tables. Index . ix , 442 pp. Cloth . $44.50 . Copyright 1991 by Duke...

... Francisco Morales, Ethnic and Social Background of the Franciscan Friars in Seventeenth Century Mexico (Washington, 1973), p. 101, states that 111 parents were artisans, 80 in government service, and 77, merchants. 71 Asunción Lavrin, “The Role of the Nunneries in the Economy of New Spain...

... of Guanajuato during the same period. Insofar as I can make out a unifying theme, it appears to be the impact of the late Bourbon reforms on the economy and power structure of New Spain. Copyright 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Miners and Merchants in Bourbon Mexico, 1763-1810 . By Brading...