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Mercantilism as a book category covers the early-modern economic doctrine, dominant in Europe from roughly the 16th to 18th centuries, that linked national power to trade surpluses, bullion accumulation, and state-directed commerce. Books in this area explore policies such as protective tariffs and navigation acts, colonial monopolies and chartered trading companies, and the regulation of industry, finance, and shipping, set against the diplomatic and military rivalries that shaped global trade. They trace the rise of mercantile empires across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans—including extraction economies, plantation systems, and the transatlantic slave trade—and profile key thinkers and policymakers like Thomas Mun and Jean-Baptiste Colbert. The category spans primary treatises and policy documents alongside modern histories, biographies, and case studies of specific states, companies, and trade routes. Many titles also examine critiques by Adam Smith and later economists and assess mercantilism’s legacies and neo-mercantilist echoes in contemporary policy.

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