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The Low Countries' Export Trade in Textiles with the Mediterranean Basin
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120116 |
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The Low Countries' Export Trade in Textiles with the Mediterranean Basin |
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http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/ecipa/archive/UT-ECIPA-MUNRO-99-01.html |
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Cost-benefit analysis, challenging the conventional wisdom in European economic history that long-distance maritime transport in 1200-1600 as always more cost effective than overland trade routes. Author: John H. Munro. Text abstract. Full article on PDF document. |
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Jul 19, 2006 |
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