Cities of Commerce: The Institutional Foundations of International Trade in the Low Countries, 1250-1650, Gelderblom Oscar

Автор: Gelderblom Oscar
Название: Cities of Commerce
ISBN: 0691142882 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691142883
Издательство: Wiley
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"Cities of Commerce" develops a model of institutional change in European commerce based on urban rivalry. Cities continuously competed with each other by adapting commercial, legal, and financial institutions to the evolving needs of merchants. Oscar Gelderblom traces the successive rise of Bruges, Antwerp, and Amsterdam to commercial primacy between 1250 and 1650, showing how dominant cities feared being displaced by challengers while lesser cities sought to keep up by cultivating policies favorable to trade. He argues that it was this competitive urban network that promoted open-access institutions in the Low Countries, and emphasizes the central role played by the urban power holders--the magistrates--in fostering these inclusive institutional arrangements. Gelderblom describes how the city fathers resisted the predatory or reckless actions of their territorial rulers, and how their nonrestrictive approach to commercial life succeeded in attracting merchants from all over Europe.

"Cities of Commerce" intervenes in an important debate on the growth of trade in Europe before the Industrial Revolution. Challenging influential theories that attribute this commercial expansion to the political strength of merchants, this book demonstrates how urban rivalry fostered the creation of open-access institutions in international trade.

Автор: Leonard Adrian, Pretel David
Название: The Caribbean and the Atlantic World Economy: Circuits of Trade, Money and Knowledge, 1650-1914
ISBN: 1137432713 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137432711
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This collection of essays explores the inter-imperial connections between British, Spanish, Dutch, and French Caribbean colonies, and the `Old World` countries which founded them. Grounded in primary archival research, the thirteen contributors focus on the ways that participants in the Atlantic World economy transcended imperial boundaries.