Russia's Foreign Trade and Economic Expansion in the Seventeenth Century

Windows on the World

AvKotilaine

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-11-23
Mått:155 x 235 x 52 mm
Vikt:1 279 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Northern World
Antal sidor:664
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004138964

Utforska kategorier

Ekonomisk historia inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

J.T. Kotilaine Ph.D. in Economic History, Harvard University, is an Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard and an Economic Researcher based in Oxford. He has published on several aspects of Russian and North-East European economic history.

Recensioner i media

'...Kotilaine must be applauded for this Herculan scholastic achievement. All scholars interested in the economic, diplomatic, military, or political development of Muscovy and its neighboors will find some material of interest here.'Matthew P. Romaniello, The Russian Review, 2006.'...well argued and documented...Recommended.'A. Ezergailis, Choice, 2005.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceList of maps and illustrations1. Introduction: The rise of Russian foreign trade in teh 17th century2. Points of encounter: Russia's Outlets to the World Markets3. Demand-Driven Trade4. The Russian Supply Response5. The Evolution of the Arctic Route6. The changing fortunes of the Baltic route7. On teh significance of cross-border trade8. New horizons: Russian trade with Asia9. Conclusions: Midwives of an empireBibliographyIndex