Variorum Collected Studies: Money, Prices and Power in Poland, 16th-17th Centuries : A Comparative Approach by Antoni Maçzak (1995, Hardcover)

Routledge

0860784789

9780860784784

617858

Antoni Maçzak

Money, Prices and Power in Poland, 16th-17th Centuries : a Comparative Approach

Hardcover

English

Variorum Collected Studies

1995

Textbook

312 Pages

9.1in

0.7in

6.1in

16 Oz

487

Dk4290.M66 1995

Contents: The balance of Polish sea trade with the West, 1565-1646; Sir Francis Drake's Prussian prizes. Risks and profits from the Gdan;sk-Iberian commerce about 1589; Development levels in early modern Europe. The evidence of synchronic comparisons of prices and wages; Un voyageur témoin des prix européens à la fin du XVIe sièc≤ Observations on wealth and economic development in Renaissance and baroque travel literature; Money and society in Poland and Lithuania in the 16th and 17th centuries; Confessions, freedoms and the unity of Poland-Lithuania; From aristocratic household to princely court. Restructuring patronage in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Vicissitudes of feudalism in modern Pol∧ Executio bonorum and reduktion: two essays in solutions of the domain-state dilema; Pol∧ Tacitus, Aristotle and the Polish polity in the later Renaissance; The Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania in the late seventeenth century: an essay in interpretation of space; The structure of power in the Commonwealth of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; The conclusive years: the end of the sixteenth century at the turning-point of Polish history; Index.

1995

College Audience

Economic Conditions, General, World / European

94-043313

320.9438

20

Yes

Business & Economics, History, Political Science