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The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and The Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650-1770
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The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and The Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650-1770. By David Ormrod. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvii + 400 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations, maps, tables. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN 0-521-81926-1. Reviewed by Martine Julia van Ittersum
The rise and decline of trading empires in the early modern period has received much attention from historians in the past decade. It is a prominent topic in new fields of s...
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