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Browsing Department of History and Civilization (HEC) by Author "VANNESTE, Tijl"
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Title:Global Trade and Commercial Networks: Eighteenth-Century Diamond Merchants
Author(s):VANNESTE, TijlDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:At the heart of this study on cross-cultural trade lies a concrete case-study of a network of diamond merchants operating in the early eighteenth century. Trust was an important element within this cross-cultural network ...
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, ...