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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Emily Erikson |
ISBN: | 9780691159065 0691159068 |
OCLC Number: | 893406237 |
Description: | xiii, 252 p. ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Merchant Capitalism and the Great Transition -- 3. The European Trade with the East Indies -- 4. Social Networks and the East Indiaman -- 5. Decentralization, Corruption, and Market Structure -- 6. The Eastern Ports -- 7. Eastern Institutions and the English Trade -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Series Title: | Princeton analytical sociology Series. |
Responsibility: | Emily Erikson. |
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Winner of the 2016 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University Winner of the 2016 James Coleman Award for Outstanding Book, Rationality and Society Section of the American Sociological Association Co-Winner of the 2015 Ralph Gomory Prize, Business History Conference Co-Winner of the 2015 Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association "It offers a fresh perspective on a key aspect of the Company's development and provides some impressive data to support the idea that private trade was the crucial dynamo driving Company innovation and expansion."--John McAleer, Journal of Maritime History "Between Monopoly and Free Trade is a spectacular debut that will mark Erikson as a luminary of historical sociology and earn her many intellectual followers... Though the sociologist familiar with, but not in thrall to, analytical sociology will be prone to approach the text with skepticism (as I was), he or she will soon be won over by the author's excellence in scholarship."--Isaac Ariail Reed, American Journal of Sociology Read more...

