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Brand, Hanno and Müller, Leos (eds.) - The Dynamics of Economic Culture in the North Sea- and Baltic Region in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.

Title: The Dynamics of Economic Culture in the North Sea- and Baltic Region in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.
Description: Hilversum Verloren 2007 Softcover, 254pp., 16x24cm., in very good condition (spine discolorated, else fine). ISBN 9789065508829. This volume is a result of an international project encompassing junior- and senior researchers from universities in Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands. The papers presented here focus on various spin-off effects of international trade in the North Sea and Baltic Region in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period. With several long term perspectives on state formation and corporative structures in the region included, 14 papers pay attention to a wide range of topics related to the characteristics and effects of market integration, migration, fisheries, seafaring, war and diplomacy. With its focus put on changing relations and patterns of interaction, the volume offers valuable insights in the dynamics of economic culture during the thirteenth-eighteenth centuries. / Contents: LEOS MÜLLER/HANNO BRAND, Introduction Long term perspectives: JAN GLETE, Cities, state formation and the protection of trade in northern Europe, 1200-1700 SVEN LILJA, Peoples, towns and states. Structural power resources and state power in the Scando-Baltic region (1500-1820) ERIK LINDBERG, Merchant guilds and urban growth in the Baltic Sea area 1650-1850 The Hanseatic period: MIKE BURKHARDT, One hundred years of thriving commerce at a major English sea port. The Hanseatic Trade at Boston between 1370 and 1470 JUSTYNA WUBS-MROZEWICZ, 'Alle goede coepluyden ?? Strategies in the Scandinavian trade politics of Amsterdam and Lübeck c. 1440-1560 HANNO BRAND, Habsburg and Hanseatic diplomacy during the Sound controversy of 1532 LOUIS SICKING, A wider spread of risk: a key to understanding Holland?s domination of eastward and westward seafaring from the Low Countries in the sixteenth century EDDA FRANKOT, The practice of maritime law in the town courts of fifteenth-century Northern Europe. A Comparison Trade and Markets in the early-modern period: CHRISTIAAN VAN BOCHOVE, Market integration and the North Sea system (1600-1800) JELLE VAN LOTTUM, Some aspects of migration in the North Sea region, c. 1550-1800 BO POULSEN, Markets, prices and consumption. The herring trade in the North Sea and Baltic region, c. 1600-1850 PHILIP KELSALL, The changing relationship between Denmark and the Netherlands in the latter half of the seventeenth century MICHIEL DE JONG, Dutch merchants and their interests in Dutch and foreign state finances, 1615-1630: the case of bilateral subsidies and loans at the start of the Thirty Years War ANDREJ KOTLJARCHUK, Riga and commercial aspects of the Lithuanian-Swedish relations during the seventeenth century About the authors.

Keywords: Middeleeuwen: geschiedenis, cultuur, literatuur, kunst algemeen trade economic economische handel Noord Zee North Sea Baltic region baltische zee staten hanze geschiedenis histoire geschichte history netherlands holland dutch nederlandse zeehandel seatrad

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