Ashtor Levant Trade in the Middle Ages

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5316-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 624 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

The book is based on Arabic sources, documents in archives of centers of Levantine trade, and material from the files of the firm of Francesco Datini. From the fall of Acre to the journey of Vasco de Gama, the author provides an invaluable description of late medieval Mediterranean trade.

Originally published in 1984.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Ashtor, Eliyahu

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Table of Contents, pg. vii
Tables, pg. ix
Preface, pg. xi
I. The Crisis of Levant Trade (1291-1344), pg. 1
II. Back to Egypt and Syria (1345-1370), pg. 64
III. A New Period of Growth (1370-1402), pg. 103
IV. The Ascendancy of Venice (1403-1421), pg. 200
V. A New Crisis (1422-1452), pg. 270
VI. The Levant Trader at Home and Overseas, pg. 367
VII. Mediaeval Levant Trade at Its Height (1453-1498), pg. 433
Appendices, pg. 513
Bibliography, pg. 560
Index, pg. 577