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(Review) Meccan Trade And The Rise Of Islam, Frederick S. Paxton Jul 1989

(Review) Meccan Trade And The Rise Of Islam, Frederick S. Paxton

History Faculty Publications

Review of Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam. By Patricia Crone. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. viii, 300 pp. $32.50.


Local Merchants And The Regional Economy Of The Connecticut River Valley, Gerald F. Reid Jan 1989

Local Merchants And The Regional Economy Of The Connecticut River Valley, Gerald F. Reid

Sociology Faculty Publications

This paper focuses on valley/hill town interactions and regional economic processes in the upper Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Merchants, those individuals involved in the trading and movement of commodities, are an especially useful point of departure for investigating such concerns because they operated in the economic space between communities, towns, and regions. Attention to their activities is likely to tell us a good deal about economic interaction across space and" over long distances in early America and, specifically, about economic interactions between valley towns and hill towns in the Connecticut River …


Speaking With Forked Tongues: Mercantilism, Telecommunications Regulation, And International Trade, Glenn Harlan Reynolds Jan 1989

Speaking With Forked Tongues: Mercantilism, Telecommunications Regulation, And International Trade, Glenn Harlan Reynolds

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