UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1986 · Q5(a) · 20 marks
‘The novelty in sixteenth century mercantilism its extension from city to nation and the transfer of its chief agency from local guilt to national monarch.’
- Chapter
- Industrialization
- Topic
- Commercial Revolution, Mercantilism and Capitalism
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