From the North Sea to the Baltic: Essays in Commercial, Monetary and Agrarian History, 1500û1800

by North,Michael

• ISBN13: 9780860786009
• ISBN10: 0860786005
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-10-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Baltic in the early modern period has been called a 'Nordic Mediterranean'. In the studies collected here, Professor North is concerned to examine the ways in which this Baltic region became integrated into the international division of labour and the emerging world economy. The volume opens with a new introductory essay, and the first section then focuses on commodities exported to Western Europe - grain, timber, flax, hemp and other raw materials. The following studies examine how this ever growing bulk trade stimulated a flow of money and payments in the opposite direction, and led to the formation of the manorial economy and second serfdom in the grain-producing countries of the Baltic hinterlands.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The export trade of Royal Prussia and Ducal Prussia, 1550-1650

The export of timber and timber by-products from the Baltic region to Western Europe, 1575-1775

A small Baltic port in the early modern period: the port of Elbing in the 16th and 17th century

The lighterman business in the Baltic ports: Danzig, Elbing and Königsberg (16th-18th centuries)

The Baltic trade and the decline of the Dutch economy in the 18th century

Hamburg: the 'continent's most English city'

The European rice trade in the 18th and early 19th centuries

Der Große Lübecker Münzschatz von 1533 als Quelle der hansischen Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Banking and credit in Northern Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries

Bullion transfer from Western Europe to the Baltic and the problem of trade balances, 1550-1750

Bullion transfer from Western Europe to the Baltic and to Asia, 1550-1750: a comparison

Geldumlauf und Wirtschaftsregion: Untersuchungen am Beispiel Königlich Preußens und des Herzogtums Preußen in der Frühen Neuzeit

Die frühneuzeitliche Gutswirtschaft als Problem der polnischen und deutschen wirtschaftshistorischen Forschung

Untersuchungen zur adligen Gutswirtschaft im Herzogtum Preußen des 16. Jahrhunderts

Die frühneuzeitliche Gutswirtschaft in Schleswig-Holstein

Wage labour versus corvée labour in East Prussian agriculture (16th-18th centuries)

Abgaben und Dienste in der ostdeutschen Landwirtschaft vom Spätmittelalter bis zur Bauernbefreiung: Bestimmungsgründe für die langfristigen Substitutionsprozesse

Ducal Prussia: an internal periphery? (16th-18th centuries)

Englische Reiseberichte des 17. Jahrhunderts als Quelle zur Geschichte der königlich-preußischen Städte Danzig, Elbing und Thorn

Index

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