Merchant Colonies in the Early Modern Period

Victor N Zakharov, Gelina Harlaftis, Olga Katsiardi-Hering, Victor N Zakharov, Gelina Harlaftis, Olga Katsiardi-Hering

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317320524
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Economic Theory
• Index: Economics

Merchant colonies were a significant factor for economic growth in Europe during the early modern period. The essays in this collection look at merchant colonies across Europe, assessing their function, legal status, interaction with local traders and assimilation into their host countries.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 Early Modern English Merchant Colonies: Contexts and Functions
• 2 German and Italian Merchant Colonies in Early Modern England
• 3 Dynamism and Integration of the North European Merchant Communities in French Ports in the Eighteenth Century
• 4 Opportunity and Legislation: How the Armenians Entered Trade in Three Mediterranean Ports
• 5 Russian Merchant Colonies in Seventeenth-Century Sweden
• 6 Foreign Merchant Communities in Eighteenth-Century Russia
• 7 Greek Merchant Colonies in Central and South-Eastern Europe in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
• 8 Community for Commerce: An Introduction to the Nezhin Greek Brotherhood Focusing on its Establishment as a Formal Institution in the Years Between 1692 and 1710
• 9 Entrepreneurship at the Russian Frontier of International Trade. The Greek Merchant Community/Paroikia of Taganrog in the Sea of Azov, 1780s–1830s
• Notes
• Index