Preface: "Marian Małowist : an appreciation" / Immanuel Wallerstein
Introduction: "I chased after Polish grain all over the world" / Jean Batou and Henryk Szlajfer
Commercial capitalism and agriculture
Merchant credit and the putting-out system : rural production during the Middle Ages
Some remarks on the role of merchant capital in Eastern Europe in the late Middle Ages
Kaffa : the Genoese colony in Crimea and the Eastern question (1453-1475)
Levantine trade with Eastern Europe in the 16th Century : some problems
Poland, Russia and Western trade in the 15th and 16th centuries
The problem of the inequality of economic development in Europe in the later Middle Ages
Problems of the growth of the national economy of Central-Eastern Europe in the late Middle Ages
East and West Europe in the 13th-16th centuries : confrontation of social and economic structures
Economic and political divisions in medieval and early modern Europe
Eastern Europe and the countries of the Iberian Peninsula : parallels and contrasts
The social and economic stability of the Western Sudan in the Middle Ages
The Western Sudan in the Middle Ages : underdevelopment in the empires of the Western Sudan Hopkins-Małowist debate
Social and economic life in Timur's empire
New Saray, capital of the Golden Horde
The foundations of European expansion in Africa in the 16th century : Europe, Maghreb and Western Sudan
Portuguese expansion in Africa and European economy at the turn of the 15th century
Gulf of Guinea countries in the 15th and early 16th century.