Indo-Portuguese Trade and the Fuggers of Germany : Sixteenth Century

Trade between Europe, USA and Asia gave rise to need for loans to finance financial arrangements through banking. Emergence of Fuggers as important industrialists, merchants and financiers controlling even the elections to the Roman empire against the backdrop of Indo-Portuguese trade during the sixteenth century is a case in point. Deals with such cases and maritime history of regions and its impact on trade, politics and society.