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1 online resource (xi, 458 pages) Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-445) and index Note on coinage, weights, and other technical terms -- pt. 1. At the origins of the commercial revolution. Commerce in the Byzantine Empire, the Muslim East, and the Catholic West -- pt. 2. Markets, merchants, merchandise, and means of exchange during the commercial revolution. The development of markets ; The growth of the merchant class ; The diversification of merchandise ; The evolution of the means of exchange -- pt. 3. Commercial contracts and commercial investments. Loans and the problem of interest ; The contract of exchange and its double function ; The sea loan and the sea exchange ; The Commenda contract ; Partnerships and other contracts used in land trade ; Depositors, factors, and commission agents ; Some other forms of agreement ; Informal commercial papers -- pt. 4. The route and the thorns along it. Transportation by sea ; Transportation by land ; The development of insurance contracts ; Commercial litigation and sharp business practices ; Business failures and their settlement ; International disputes over trade -- Legal restrictions of trade -- pt. 5. Tools and ideas.

Author

with introductions and notes by Robert S. Lopez and Irving W. Raymond

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

1967

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393097207

Subjects

Business, History