Title:Commercial Culture and Merchant Networks: Eighteenth-century diamond traders in global history
Author(s):VANNESTE, TijlDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In discarding the idea of a geographically centralized origin of globalization, the emphasis on human interaction becomes ever more important. World history is not a history of the evolutionary path towards a unified world, ...
Title:Bengali raw silk, the East India Company and the European global market, 1770-1833
Author(s):DAVINI, RobertoDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In 1769, the East India Company decided to transform the Bengali silk industry, and introduced Piedmontese reeling technologies and spatially concentrated working practices into the area. Although Bengali raw silk reeled ...
Title:Sharecropping in history
Author(s):SCHOFIELD, Phillipp; CâMARA, Benedita; CâMARA, Benedita; CARMONA, Juan; FEDERICO, Giovanni; SANTOS, RuiDate:2006Type of Publication:Article
Title:The 'real' puzzle of sharecropping: why is it disappearing?
Author(s):FEDERICO, GiovanniDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Ce qui s'écrit à propos du métayage traite pour une bonne partie des raisons pour lesquelles on se trouve adopter une forme de contrat apparemment aussi irrationnelle. Les hypothèses que formule la théorie à ce propos n'ont ...
