Mercantilism
- Resource Type
- Topic overview
- Authors
- Goodwin, Christopher
- Source
- Encyclopedia of the Atlantic World, 1400-1900 : Europe, Africa, and the Americas in an Age of Exploration, Trade, and Empires: Lâ€'Z. 2018, p403-407.
- Subject
- Language
- English
Mercantilism Mercantilism was the economic engine that drove European exploration and, later, colonialism in the Atlantic world from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Much of the theory was based on [...]