[Marxism] Mielants

[bhandari@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Louis,
What does Mielants say about the importance of the Atlantic trade? Intra
European trade did not itself seem to have led to the consolidation of
merchant power, institutional change and industrialization. Harman gives
the example of the Medicis. But the Dutch and English merchants were able
to revolutionize society, on the basis the power derived  from Atlantic
trade against the backdrop of weak states. So perhaps the intra European
network of relatively autonomous cities trading surpluses was not as
important as Prem Shankar Jha and Saskia Sassen think it was to the rise
of the West.
Rakesh



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