From Commercial Communication to Commercial Integration: Middle Ages to 19th Century

Hardcover, 271 pages, NOT ex-library. Pages are clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show shelfworn marks and moderate scratches, small scuff-marks, a couple of horizontal creases on lower spine. Published without a dust jacket. -- Through the ages and in all parts of the world, communication between merchants has been the basic requirement for the integration of economic areas. The transfer of commercial know-how in different aspects such as trading customs, forms of payment and accounting, information on goods and their prices as well as knowledge of supply and demands, kinds and qualities did not only intensify the relationships of merchants or companies, but also of the different markets. The trading centres of the different regions across the continents - having always been the centre of economic knowledge - supported this process even further. From those centres new developments, techniques and learning processes were initiated and spread regionally and even worldwide. Thereby, the communication of merchants helped and forced the integration of new markets and areas into the emerging world economy. -- Contents: From Commercial Communication to Commercial Integration (Middles Ages to 17th Century): Views from/towards Eastern Europe / Michael Bibikov; Communication Networks of the Habsburg Empire (1493-1598) / Renate Pieper; Main Actors in the Early Commercial Integration Process Between the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Europe During the 17th Century / Mehmet Bulut; Merchants and Skipper-Merchants in 17th Century American-Atlantic Communication / Claudia Schnurmann; Cycles of Silver: Global Economic Unity Through the Mid-18th Century / Dennis O. Flynn & Arturo Giráldez; Communication économique et intégration politique. Une économie globale d'Ancien Régime: création de foires jurassiennes au XVIIIe siècle / Anne Radeff; Freedom and Technology: The Integration of the Spanish Wheat Market, 1765-1883 / Rafael Barquín Gil; Postal Network as a Factor of Commercial Integration in Russia Between the Middle of the 17th and the Early 18th Century / Elena Lobanova; Aboutir à l'intégration par la communication. L'exemple de Gaspar Stockalper de la Tour de Brig en Suisse (1609-1691) / Gabriel Imboden; Commercial Communication and Monetary Integration in Early Modern India / Om Prakash; Cash Transfers and Commercial Integration in Spain (1775-1885) / Joan Carles Maixé-Altés; System of Cashless Payment as a Basis for the Commercial Integration of Europe and the World / Markus A. Denzel; Commercial Integration During the Era of the Classic Gold Standard / Margarete Wagner-Braun.…