"Throughout the eighteenth-century hundreds of thousands of men and women were cast into prison for failing to pay their debts. This apparently illogical system where debtors were kept away from their places of work remained popular with creditors into the nineteenth century even as Britain...

"Drawing on an impressive range of archival material, this monograph delves into the careers of two businessmen who worked for Nordic chartered monopoly trading companies to illuminate individual entrepreneurship in the context of seventeenth-century long-distance trade. The study spans the...

"Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit addresses how social and cultural ideas about credit and trust, in the context of fashion and trade, were affected by the growth and development of the bankruptcy institution. Luxury, fashion and social standing are intimately connected to...

Smaller states, trade, and conflicts from the 18th to the 20th centuries -- Introduction / Jari Eloranta, Eric Golson, Peter Hedberg, Cristina Moreira, and Silvia Marzagalli -- The United States and the Mediterranean, 1783-1815 / Silvia Marzagalli (Université Nice) -- Baltic relations between...

War, finance, and mercantilism -- Great divergence, fiscal-military state and economic policy -- From trading cities to territorial states -- The "military revolution" -- The rise of the fiscal state -- Different paths to public finance and fiscal systems -- European states and the crisis of the...

Preface -- Editor's acknowledgments -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction / Thomas French -- Planning, reform, and recovery -- Japanese agency and business reform in occupied Japan : the Holding Company Liquidation Commission and Zaibatsu dissolution / Steven J. Ericson -- Japan's postwar...

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 --...