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Drawing on archaeological and written sources, this collection of essays presents fascinating new interpretations in the history of the fisheries by highlighting the consequences of the northern fisheries through interdisciplinary approaches to various themes, including the environment, economy, politics, and society in the medieval and early modern periods.
Highlights how, among others, nuns, traders, notaries, guilds, innkeepers, and shopkeepers formed networks of credit Offers a more accurate assessment of credit markets throughout history Focuses on the informational context that frames these markets and the conditions under which these markets thrive and grow
A proposal for a new global approach for fisheries focused on reducing fishing capacity and providing incentives for long-term sustainability. The Earth's oceans are overfished, despite more than fifty years of cooperation among the world's fishing nations. There are too many boats chasing too few fish. In Saving Global Fisheries, J. Samuel Barkin and Elizabeth DeSombre analyze the problem of overfishing and offer a provocative proposal for a global regulatory and policy approach. Existing patterns of international fisheries management try to limit the number of fish that can be caught while governments simultaneously subsidize increased fishing capacity, focusing on fisheries as an industry...
Bridging history and development, a study of credit scarcity, low investment and widespread poverty in colonial and postcolonial India.
Pieter Langendijk's two satirical plays about financial speculation, performed to popular acclaim after the collapse of the South Sea and the Mississippi bubbles, are here presented in a scholarly English translation. The plays offer an incisively comic view of the first international major financial crisis of the early modern era.
A quantitative history of the Bank of Amsterdam, a dominant central bank for much of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This book should interest monetary economists, scholars of central bank history, and historians of the Dutch Republic.
Offers a compelling story of mercantile wealth and merchant heiresses who asserted their rights despite loss, imprisonment, and murder.
In the late Middle Ages the county of Holland experienced a process of uncommonly rapid commercialisation. Comparing Holland to England and Flanders this book examines how the institutions that shaped commodity markets contributed to this remarkable development.