Merchants & scholars : essays in the history of exploration and trade / Collected in memory of James Ford Bell and edited by John Parker

Corporate Author:: James Ford Bell Collection
Published:: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1965]
Physical Description:: 258 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Additional Creators:: Bell, James Ford, 1879-1961 and Parker, John, 1923-2006

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Introduction, by J. Parker.--Geography in fifteenth-century Florence, by T. Goldstein.--The discoveries and the humanists, by E. F. Hirsch.--Coromandel trade in medieval India, by B. Stein.--The Van Deutecum map of Russian and Tartary, by J. W. Webb.--Henry Hudson and the early exploration and mapping of Hudson Bay, 1610 to 1631, by E. C. Abbe and F. J. Gillis.--England and the St. Laurence, 1577-1602, by D. B. Quinn.--Caribbean sugar-production standards in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by W. Barrett.--Slaves for the galleys of France, 1665-1700, by P. W. Bamford.--English enterprise in the region of the Strait of Magellan, by H. Wallis.--De Lozier Bouvet and mercantilist expansion in the Pacific in 1740, by O. H. K. Spate.

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"A publication from the James Ford Bell Collection".

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Rebound. 20070511. Grantville, PA 17028. Wert Bookbinding, Inc.
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