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) |
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Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
Language: | English |
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Florence
Firenze University Press
2023
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Series: | Datini Studies in Economic History
3 |
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