Books, maps, and manuscripts in the James Ford Bell Library chronicle the development of global trade in the early modern period. The desire to obtain goods that they could not produce at home lured Europeans to travel, by sea or land, to far distant lands in search of these products. In some regions Europeans entered into trade networks that had existed for centuries; in others they created new trade networks and established colonies.
Students in the Expansion of Europe Seminar taught in the James Ford Bell Library select a product important in the early history of trade for a short paper. In recent years this course has been taught by the curator together with Professor William D. Phillips, Jr. or Professor Stuart B. Schwartz of the History Department. A few of these papers are reproduced below, with illustrations from materials in the James Ford Bell Library. We hope you will enjoy learning about these products, as we have.
Carol Urness, Curator
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