Early Modern Trading Networks in Europe: Cooperation and the Case of Simon Ruiz

by Ana Sofia Vieira Ribeiro

In the early modern period, trade became a truly global phenomenon. The logistics, financial and organizational complexity associated with it increased in order to connect distant geographies and merchants from different backgrounds. How did these merchants prevent their partners from dishonesty in a time where formal institutions and legislation did not traverse these different worlds? This book studies the mechanisms and criteria of cooperation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367668645
• ISBN13: 9780367668648
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages