"Business News in the Early Modern Atlantic World explores the creation, dissemination, and consumption of a specific type of news, 'business news', within early modern commercial news networks. The volume contains eleven case studies, written by scholars from a range of disciplines, which span...

"This edited collection examines the development of Atlantic World architecture after 1492. In particular, the chapters explore the landscapes of extraction as material networks that brought people, space, and labor together in harvesting raw materials, cultivating agriculture for export-level...

A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time series on wage/rental ratios, land/labor ratios, the terms of trade, and other explanatory variables for: Argentina, Burma, Egypt, Japan, Korea, the Punjab, Taiwan, Thailand and...

NATO regularly cites human rights as one of its core values. This overview of NATO's relationship to human rights issues identifies the main elements of NATO’s legal framework with a specific focus on components related to human rights. These include both the overarching treaty and specific...

Zwischen 1961 und 1974 schlossen die Bundesrepublik und die USA acht Offset-Abkommen. Im Rahmen dieser Abkommen erwarb die Bundesrepublik Rüstungsgüter und US-Staatsanleihen, um die Devisenkosten der in der Bundesrepublik stationierten US-Truppen zu kompensieren. Im übergeordneten Sinne...

"This book argues that coffeehouses and the coffee trade were central to the making of the Atlantic world in the century leading up to the American Revolution. Fostering international finance and commerce, spreading transatlantic news, building military might, determining political fortunes and...

Introduction: Atlantic/Africa / Dale Tomich and Paul Lovejoy -- African slavery in the nineteenth century : inseparable partner of the Atlantic slave trade / Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch -- The great transformation : world capitalism and the crisis of slavery in the Americas / Tâmis Parron --...

"Chocolate is one of the most visible examples of how a deeply exotic consumer product penetrating our daily lives fascinated Europeans during the Early Modern period. Today, over fifty percent of the four million tons of cocoa produced globally come from Sub-Saharan Africa. Ecuadorian cocoa, on...

Ruim driehonderd jaar lang was de stad Amsterdam een speler in de slavenhandel en slavernij in Oost en West. Maar welke politieke en persoonlijke rol hadden de bestuurders van de stad daar eigenlijk bij? In hoeverre beïnvloedde de slavernij de ontwikkeling van Amsterdam en zijn inwoners? Dienen...

"Spontaneous Generation and Marvellous Transformations Under magnification, the fibres of cotton, linen, and wool appear twisted, hatched, knobbly or scaled. In contrast, silk strands were described in 1665 by the first English micrographer as "small, round, hard, transparent, and to their...

Klemens Kaps : connectors, networks and commercial systems: approaches to the study of early modern maritime trade history / Manuel Herrero Sánchez -- Merchant networks, early modern long-distance trade and globalization : theoretical considerations and historiographical reappraisal --...

pt. 1. Merchant networks, early modern long-distance trade and globalization : theoretical considerations and historiographical reappraisal -- pt. II. The social composition of networks : cultural identities versus transnationality -- pt. III. Connecting spaces : networks and systems, merchants...

Roger Barlow's world: community, guild, & family -- The Mediterranean origins of an Atlantic trading network -- Gateway to wealth: the English trading community in Seville -- Negotiating fortune: love, death, & relationships -- Sebastian Cabot & the voyage for spice -- South America & the...

The European Union has seven biogeographical regions, each with its own characteristic blend of vegetation, climate and geology. Natura 2000 sites are selected according to each region on the basis of national lists submitted by each Member State within that region. Working at this level makes...