Merchants & scholars : essays in the history of exploration and trade, collected in memory of James Ford Bell / edited by John Parker.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press ; [1965]Description: 258 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Other title:
  • Merchants and scholars
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Merchants & scholars.DDC classification:
  • 910.4 Par
LOC classification:
  • HF481 M55
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
Introduction, by J. Parker.--Geography in fifteenth century Florence, by T. Goldstein.--The discoveries and the humanists, by E.F. Hirsch.--Coromandel trade in medieval India, by B. Stein.--The Van Deutecum map of Russian and Tartary, by J.W. Webb.--Henry Hudson and the early exploration and mapping of Hudson Bay, 1610 to 1631, by E.C. Abbe and F.J. Gillis.--England and the St. Lawrence, 1577 to 1602, by D.B. Quinn.--Caribbean sugar-production standards in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by W. Barrett.--Slaves for the galleys of France, 1665 to 1700, by P.W. Bamford.--English enterprise in the region of the Strait of Magellan, by H. Wallis.--De Lozier Bouvet and mercantilist expansion in the Pacific in 1740, by O.H.K. Spate.
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"A publication from the James Ford Bell Collection."

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Introduction, by J. Parker.--Geography in fifteenth century Florence, by T. Goldstein.--The discoveries and the humanists, by E.F. Hirsch.--Coromandel trade in medieval India, by B. Stein.--The Van Deutecum map of Russian and Tartary, by J.W. Webb.--Henry Hudson and the early exploration and mapping of Hudson Bay, 1610 to 1631, by E.C. Abbe and F.J. Gillis.--England and the St. Lawrence, 1577 to 1602, by D.B. Quinn.--Caribbean sugar-production standards in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by W. Barrett.--Slaves for the galleys of France, 1665 to 1700, by P.W. Bamford.--English enterprise in the region of the Strait of Magellan, by H. Wallis.--De Lozier Bouvet and mercantilist expansion in the Pacific in 1740, by O.H.K. Spate.

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