Mercantilism: Project resources

These web links contain relevant topical information and can lead to other useful sources.

Portuguese trading West Africa | 16th-17th Centuries

Spain and the Silver Trade | 16th - 17th Centuries

British / Dutch East India Company

New Spain’s economic production | 17th Century

Poland-Lithuania / Sweden | 16th-17th Centuries

Use these sites to find a variety of documents related to European economics and other info, as well as music repositories.

Here is a list of books found in the library—they will be held at the library staff desk for your reference. To allow multiple classes access, you can't check these books out, but you can use them in the library and make copies of pages that pertain to your topic. 

Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900 (2010)

Cross-Cultural Trade in World History (1984)

Empire of Cotton: A Global History (2014)

The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400-Present (1999)

Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492-1763 (2003)

The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870 (1999)

The East India Company: A Trade and Conquest from 1600 (2000)

Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800 (2013)

From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000 (2006)

Archives of Empire: Volume I. From The East India Company to the Suez Canal (2003)

Use these subject specific databases for more information on your topic:

• Begin with tertiary searches (i.e. reference sources) to note names, events, dates, and other key words you can use to build your searches later

• Choose key terms within your research question or topic to build your search string. i.e. Spain and silver and (value or worth) and (1500s or 16th century) 

• Use OR between terms to expand your search results i.e. trade or mercantilism or commerce

• Use synonyms or similar phrases to vary your search results, especially if not finding any initial hits

• Use quotes around terms/phrases you want to find exact matches for i.e. "East India Company"  will produce results with that exact phrase rather than results with each of those words found separately 

• Use the Refine Results or other limiter sections in databases to narrow your results i.e. source type or publication date

• When using Google Scholar, use the Cited by and Related articles links below the title info when you find a potentially useful source to find others