Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on July 7, 2006
Enterprise and Society 2006 7(3):600-602; doi:10.1093/es/khl027
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Published by Oxford University Press 2006.
Om Prakash. Bullion for Goods: European and Indian Merchants in the Indian Ocean Trade, 15001800. New Delhi, India: Manohar Publishers, 2004. 426 pp. ISBN 81-7304-538-0, $48.95 (paper).
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In this significant book, edited by a well-known scholar of Indian economic history, Om Prakash attempts to provide thorough analysis of the interaction between the European and Indian merchants, two important groups that participated in the trading activities in the region during the period 15001800. This was an important period in the premodern Indian history because of the phenomenal expansion of global contact and exchange that led to
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