The Ninth International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory, held in the Netherlands in July 1984, follows the tradition of broad international information exchange ...

This work provides important new perspectives on the social and political context of commercial activity in early modern India and the transition to British colonial rule.

This book explores the rarely recognized roles of notaries, innkeepers, brokers, transporters, and personnel of the merchant's entourage in medieval trade. The Mediterranean ...

Based on extensive field research in China and Vietnam the book reveals that the new body of entrepreneurs is not only interested in social and political processes of change ...

This accessible book draws on anthropological fieldwork conducted in a number of sites to explore the relation between mobility, cosmopolitanism, and commerce. It is pioneering ...

This work is the first comprehensive assessment of Russia's foreign trade flows and economic growth in the seventeenth century. By demonstrating the growing openness of the ...