Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol 2: The Wheels of Commerce

by Fernand Braudel · 1979

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The subject of The Wheels of Commerceis the development of mechanisms of exchange—shops, markets, trade networks, and banking—in the pre-industrial stages of capitalism.

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