TY - BOOK AU - Wirta,Kaarle TI - Early modern overseas trade and entrepreneurship: Nordic trading companies in the seventeenth century T2 - Perspectives in economic and social history SN - 9780429319068 AV - HF3640 .W57 2021eb U1 - 382.0948 23 PY - 2021/// CY - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY PB - Routledge KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Scandinavia KW - History KW - 17th century KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History KW - bisacsh KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General KW - Commerce N2 - "Drawing on an impressive range of archival material, this monograph delves into the careers of two businessmen who worked for Nordic chartered monopoly trading companies to illuminate individual entrepreneurship in the context of seventeenth-century long-distance trade. The study spans the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, examining global entanglements through personal interactions and daily trading activities between Europeans, Asian merchants and African brokers. It makes an important contribution to our understanding of the role of individuals and their networks within the great European trading companies of the early modern period. This unique book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers of economic history, business history, early modern global history and entrepreneurship"-- UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429319068 UR - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf ER -