The “destroyers of trade”, “our good and dear Inhabitants”, and “all persons of what quality or nation however they may be”: Early Modern Colonial Market Culture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. How to Study the Premodern Market: The Concept of Market Exchange 7
5. Towards a Different Type of Market Exchange in the Early Middle Ages: The Sacrum Commercium and its Agents 27
6. Imagined Investors: Markets, Agents, and the Saxon Mining Administration 71
7. The “destroyers of trade”, “our good and dear Inhabitants”, and “all persons of what quality or nation however they may be”: Early Modern Colonial Market Culture 101
8. Markets and their Agents in History: Some Theoretical Reflections 121
9. List of authors 145
10. Index of names 147
11. Index of places 149