01311nam a2200229Ia 4500 CTU_222172 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 382.09405 S814 Steensgaard, Niels The Asian trade revolution of the seventeenth century : The East India companies and the decline of the caravan trade Niels Steensgaard Chicago University of Chicago Press 1974 In this work Neils Steensgaard combines an analytical economic approach with detailed historic scholarship to provide an imaginitive and important analysis of a central incident in modern world history. The event is the breaking of the Portuguese monopoly on Asian trade in the seventeenth century by English and Dutch mercantile interests. This change the author demonstrates, was not simply the triumph of the new powers over the old. Rather, the Dutch--English victory heralded a structural change in international trade: the triumph of entrepreneurial capitalism over the older economic mode of the "peddler-merchant." Commerce,Thương mại History,Lịch sử Kim Tuyến Qhieu Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ