Russia's foreign trade and economic expansion in the seventeenth century : windows on the world
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Russia's foreign trade and economic expansion in the seventeenth century : windows on the world
(The northern world : North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 A.D. : peoples, economies and cultures, v. 13)
Brill, 2005
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Russia's foreign trade and economic expansion in the 17th century
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [517]-582) and index
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Description
This study is the first comprehensive assessment of Russia's commercial relations with the outside world in the seventeenth century and of the relationship between trade and economic growth. Based on exhaustive research in some thirty archival repositories, it represents the first systematic quantification of commodity flows across the range of Russia's trade partners. The book reveals late Muscovy to have been an increasingly open economy, experiencing remarkable commercial expansion driven in large part by its interaction with the outside world. It fundamentally debunks the notion of pre-Petrine Russia as a closed and stagnant, essentially mediaeval, society and established a clear link between seventeenth-century economic policy and Russia's subsequent rise to become one of the great powers of the world.
Table of Contents
Preface
List of maps and illustrations
1. Introduction: The rise of Russian foreign trade in teh 17th century
2. Points of encounter: Russia's Outlets to the World Markets
3. Demand-Driven Trade
4. The Russian Supply Response
5. The Evolution of the Arctic Route
6. The changing fortunes of the Baltic route
7. On teh significance of cross-border trade
8. New horizons: Russian trade with Asia
9. Conclusions: Midwives of an empire
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Index
by "Nielsen BookData"