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‘Bringing of forty ships filled with cedar logs. Shipbuilding of cedarwood, one … ship, 100 cubits long. … Making the doors of the royal palace of cedarwood.’1
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Quoted by Lionel Casson, ‘Where Did Ancient Traders Sail?’, in Lionel Casson et al. (eds) Mysteries of the Past (London: Mitchell Beazley, 1977) p. 160.
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See D. C. Coleman (ed.) Revisions in Mercantilism (London: Methuen, 1969).
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The historical background is well covered in the following texts: E. E. Rich and C. H. Wilson (eds) Cambridge Economic History of Europe, vols iv and v (Cambridge U.P., 1977);
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See Woodruff D. Smith, ‘The Function of Commercial Centres in the Modernization of European Capitalism: Amsterdam as an Information Exchange in the Seventeenth Century’, Journal of Economic History, vol. XLIV (Dec 1984) pp. 985–1005.
See Richard T. Rapp, ‘The Unmaking of the Mediterranean Trade Hegemony: International Trade Rivalry and the Commercial Revolution’, Journal of Economic History, vol. 35, no. 3 (Sep 1975) pp. 499–525.
See Lawrence A. Harper, The English Navigation Acts (New York (1939) 1964) p. 243.
See Curtis Nettels, ‘England and the Spanish American Trade 1680–1715’, Journal of Modern History, vol. 3 (Mar 1931) p. 8.
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Gomes, L. (1987). The Age of Mercantilism. In: Foreign Trade and the National Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08992-5_1
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