Creating A World Economy by Alan K. Smith - 9780367153823

Creating A World EconomyMerchant Capital, Colonialism, And World Trade, 1400-1825\nAuthor(s): Alan K. Smith\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367153823, 978-0367153823\nSynopsis\nThis book delineates the systemic roles assumed by the various regions of the world and by European merchant capital and explains the tensions within intercultural commercial system that ensured its continued dynamism and eventual transformation into the current world economic system.