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258 pages : illustrations |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
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.G. Gillis.- England and the St. Laurence, 1577 to 1603, by D.B. Quinn.- Caribbean sugar-production standrds 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. |
Subject |
Commerce -- History.
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Commerce. |
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History. |
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Discoveries in geography.
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Discoveries in geography. |
Added Author |
Bell, James Ford, 1879-1961.
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Parker, John, 1923-2006.
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