Power and Profit
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Author | : Peter Spufford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2006 |
ISBN-10 | : 0500285942 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780500285947 |
Rating | : 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Power and Profit by : Peter Spufford
Book excerpt: Newly available in paperback, this is a wonderfully readable account of the role of merchants and money in the medieval world. Professor Spufford, who has made a lifelong study of the subject, brings together a vast amount of material from archives all over the world to build up this important economic history of the origins of capitalism essential reading for the scholar, but also engaging and entertaining to the layman.