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Linking Trade and Security
Springer 2012; US$ 99.99This volume addresses the link between trade and security by examining the influence of security factors in driving trade policy measures and the corresponding implications of different types of trade arrangements for international security. more...
Trade Infrastructure and Economic Development
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 155.00There is growing consensus in the literature that trade and trade policy matter for a pro-poor growth and development strategy. Therefore, policies that are consistent with this strategy feature increasingly in many African countries where poverty is endemic and rapid and where sustainable economic growth is viewed as the major vehicle for poverty... more...
Chinese International Investments
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 110.00This book provides authoritative academic and professional insights into the strategies of Chinese Foreign Direct Investments in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Distinguished authors from across the world will make a contribution to the growing literature on OFDI (outward foreign direct investment) from China. more...
Late Medieval Ipswich
Boydell & Brewer 2011; US$ 90.00Ipswich in the late Middle Ages was a flourishing town. A wide range of commodities passed through its port, to and from far-flung markets, bought and sold by merchants from diverse backgrounds, and carried in ships whose design evolved during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Its trading partners, both domestic and overseas, changed in response... more...
Builders of a New South
University Press of Mississippi 2013; US$ 100.00Builders of a New South describes how, between 1865 and 1914, ten Natchez mercantile families emerged as leading purveyors in the wholesale plantation supply and cotton handling business, and soon became a dominant force in the social and economic Reconstruction of the Natchez District. They were able to take advantage of postwar conditions in... more...
Money, Markets and Trade in Late Medieval Europe
BRILL 2006; US$ 216.00Assembled in honour of John Munro (University of Toronto), this volume groups together 19 studies by a diversified panel of scholars. The essays explore late medieval market mechanisms and associated institutional, fiscal and monetary, organizational, legal, and other issues, as well as aspects of production, consumption and market integration. more...
From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean
University of California Press 2011; US$ 55.00Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire. Based in New Julfa, Isfahan, in what is now Iran, these merchants operated a network of commercial settlements... more...
Inside Knowledge
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 65.00Bestselling author Michael Backman here draws upon a wealth of new examples, case studies and anecdotes to provide crucial insights into Asian business themes. This will provide a valuable guide for anybody whose business takes them into Asia and will enable readers to get to grips with Asian business and understand how Asia really works. more...
International Trade in the 1970s
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 100.99The 1970s marked the end of the years in which the United States was the guarantor of a free world trade order, while Western Europe made efforts to catch up with the economic superpower. In this book, Dr La Barca explains how the trade environment and trade policies in the United States and in the European Community during the 1970s were more complex... more...
A Japanese Joint Venture in the Pacific
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 42.95The Japanese, and other Asians, are increasingly taking over some of the roles previously played by Europeans in the Pacific islands, which is giving rise to interesting new economic relationships, and interesting new interactions between nationalities. This book considers the role of the Japanese in the Solomon Islands, focusing in particular on a... more...









