Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. NOTE ON THE USE OF CITY NAMES xiii
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. PART I. The Context: Geography, Historiography, Theory 13
7. PART II.Organizational Building Blocks 63
8. PART III. Long-Distance Trade Enterprises on the Eve of the Organizational Revolution 171
9. PART IV. The Corporation Transformed: The Era of Impersonal Cooperation 249
10. CONCLUSION: Institutional Migration and the Corporation 365
11. NOTES 377
12. BIBLIOGRAPHY 421
13. INDEX 457