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In this work Neils Steensgaard combines an analytical economic approach with detailed historic scholarship to provide an imaginitive and important analysis of a central incident in modern world history. The event is the breaking of the Portuguese monopoly on Asian trade in the seventeenth century by English and Dutch mercantile interests. This change the author demonstrates, was not simply the triumph of the new powers over the old. Rather, the Dutch--English victory heralded a structural change
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- Author
- Niels Steensgaard; American Council of Learned Societies
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1974
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226771458
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Business, Political Science, Finance
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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