Gebundenes Buch

A Deus Ex Machina Revisited

Atlantic Colonial Trade and European Economic Development

Beschreibung

This volume of essays provides a fresh and innovative look at colonial trade and its impact on economic development in Europe. It is unique in its coverage of countries that are usually ignored, such as Denmark and Sweden, while also including in its chronology more than the 18th century alone.

Autor

Pieter C. Emmer, Ph.D. (1974), University of Amsterdam, is professor in the History of the Expansion of Europe at the University of Leiden. He has published extensively on migration and on the Dutch slave trade, including Dutch in the Atlantic Economy, 1580-1880 (Aldershot, 1998) and De Nederlandse slavenhandel, 1500-1850 (Amsterdam, 2000). Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau, Ph.D. (1994), University of Rennes, is a professor in modern and contemporary history at the University of Lorient (France) and a fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. He has published ten books since 1995 mainly devoted to the history of Nantes, of the French maritime economy, of the colonial expansion of Europe and of the slave trades. His most recent work is the critically acclaimed Les traites négrières: Essai d'Histoire Globale (2004), which has received the Prix de l'Académie Française and the Prix du Sénat. Jessica V. Roitman is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of European Expansion at the University of Leiden. Her work focuses on Sephardic trade networks in the Portuguese and Dutch Atlantic. She has forthcoming publications in Migration, Integration, Minorities, a European Encyclopaedia to be published by Cambridge University Press and the Portuguese Studies Review.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 166mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 830g
• ISBN-13: 9789004151024
• ISBN-10: 9004151028
• Artikelnr.: 22300095