Chapter Ships, shipping, technological change and global economic growth, 1400-1800

The major breakthrough in ship design around 1400 creating the full-rigged ship constituted a general purpose technology. It had far-reaching effects on shipping, trade volume, orientation of trade routes, location of production, settlement patterns and many other aspects of life throughout the glob...

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Main Author: Unger, Richard W. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Florence Firenze University Press 2023
Series:Datini Studies in Economic History
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