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The Millennium Maritime Trade Revolution, 700�1700 - How Asia Lost Maritime Supremacy
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The Millennium Maritime Trade Revolution, 700�1700 - How Asia Lost Maritime Supremacy
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Following the series' first book How Maritime Trade and the Indian
Subcontinent Shaped the World, this book continues to demonstrate
how maritime trade has been the key driver of the world's
wealth-creation, economic and intellectual progress. The story
begins where the first book ends, when following Roman Empire
collapse, 7th-century European maritime trade almost ceased,
creating population collapse and poverty; the Dark Ages. In 700
stuttering, hesitant recovery was evident with new ports but Viking
and Muslim maritime raiding neutered recovery until the 11th
century. In Asia by contrast, short and long-haul trade thrived and
accelerated from east Africa and the Persian Gulf all the way to
China, encouraging Southeast Asian state formation. The book tells
the story of slowly rising, gradually accelerating European
maritime trade, which until the 15th century was overshadowed by
far more voluminous Asian trade in much larger, more complex ships
traded by more sophisticated commercial entities, contributing to
innovative tolerant wealth-creating maritime societies. In Europe,
Mediterranean maritime trade made most progress from about 1000 to
1450,. But by 1700 north Europeans dominated Atlantic, American and
Mediterranean trade and were penetrating sophisticated Asian
maritime networks, a complete reversal. This book explains how and
why and how destructive continental influences destroyed Asia's
maritime supremacy. As in the first book, Nick Collins finds
similar patterns; maritime inquisitiveness, invention,
problem-solving and toleration and continental political
suppression of those maritime traits, most dramatically in China,
but destructively everywhere, allowing the millennium maritime
trade revolution.
General
Imprint: |
Pen & Sword Maritime
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Authors: |
Nick Collins
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
344 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-399-06012-7 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-399-06012-0 |
Barcode: |
9781399060127 |
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