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Trading Places
The Netherlandish Merchants in Early Modern Venice
Inbunden, 2009
2620 kr
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Trading Places is winner of the triennial Historical Research Award of Italy Studies (2012).This book deals with the Netherlandish merchant community in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Venice. It examines the merchants’ commercial activities, their social and communal relations, as well as their …
Birth of Modern Europe
Culture and Economy, 1400-1800. Essays in Honor of Jan de Vries
Av Laura Cruz
Inbunden, 2010
2368 kr
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It seems undeniable that Jan de Vries has cast an indelible impression upon the field of early modern economic history. With his rejection of traditional models that left pre-industrial Europe with little to no role to play in modern development, de Vries’ work has laid claim to the rich …
In the Doorway to Development
An Enquiry into Market Oriented Structural Changes in Norway ca. 1750-1830
Inbunden, 2012
2550 kr
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Set within the growing literature on European economy in the late 18th and early 19th century, this book furnishes a “pre-history” to Norway’s rapid structural transformation and accelerated economic growth after the mid-nineteenth century. It argues that Norway in the long 18th century benefitted …
Breaking into the Monopoly
Provincial Merchants and Manufacturers' Campaigns for Access to the Asian Market, 1790-1833
Inbunden, 2012
2391 kr
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Based on a number of historical documents, Breaking into the Monopoly examines how the commercial pressure groups of Glasgow, Liverpool, and Manchester organised nationwide campaigns to break into the British East India Company’s monopoly for free access to Asian markets from 1812-1813 and …
Coordination in Transition
The Netherlands and the World Economy, 1950–2010
Inbunden, 2014
2673 kr
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This book analyzes the evolution of the institutional structure of the Dutch political economy since 1950. It sketches in broad strokes the origin and economic role of coordination in the Netherlands. The Dutch economy is compared with other OECD countries by using the ‘varieties of capitalism’ …
Carriers of growth?
International Trade and Economic Development in the Austrian Netherlands
Av Ann Coenen
Inbunden, 2014
2406 kr
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In Carriers of Growth? Ann Coenen sheds new light on the vigorous debate about international trade and economic development in the Early Modern Period. The Austrian Netherlands offer an intriguing case that challenges ruling opinions within the largely Anglo-Saxon literature.By focusing on a number …
Worlds of Work: Peasants and Artisans, Engineers and Theorists
Av Carlo Poni, Vivian R. Gruder m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2693 kr
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The essays in this volume take the readers into the complex world of work in early modern Europe. Carlo Poni explores this theme from multiple perspectives, examining work practices in agriculture, artisan production and the silk industry. Extensive archival material, analyzed with theories derived …
Agrarian History of Portugal, 1000-2000
Economic Development on the European Frontier
Av Dulce Freire
Inbunden, 2016
2445 kr
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This book follows the renovation of European economic history towards a more unified interpretation of sources of growth and stagnation. To better understand the diversity of patterns of growth, we need to look beyond the study of the industrialization of the core economies, and explore the …
India, Modernity and the Great Divergence
Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th C.)
Inbunden, 2017
3850 kr
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India, Modernity and the Great Divergence is an original and pioneering book about India’s transition towards modernity and the rise of the West. The work examines global entanglements alongside the internal dynamics of 17th to 19th century Mysore and Gujarat in comparison to other regions of …
Public Finance of the Dutch Republic in Comparative Perspective
The Viability of an Early Modern Federal State (1570s-1795)
Inbunden, 2017
2553 kr
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This study offers the first complete overview of the remarkable public finances of the Dutch Republic of the United Provinces. Wantje Fritschy has analysed the development and structure of its public revenue and expenditure. She argues that a ‘tax revolution’ and the ‘fiscal resilience’ of the …
Actors of Globalization: New York Merchants in Global Trade, 1784-1812
Inbunden, 2017
2177 kr
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The monograph Actors of Globalization portrays a group of New York businessmen engaged in global trade from 1784 to 1812. It follows their businesses around the world and shows how through wit, flexibility, and the help of a worldwide net of business partners the merchants were able to quickly rise …
Private Enterprise and the China Trade
Merchants and Markets in Europe, 1700-1750
Inbunden, 2022
1933 kr
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The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.This book examines the European commercial landscape of the early China trade, c.1700–1750. It looks at the foundational period of Sino-European commerce and explores a world of …
Navigating History: Economy, Society, Knowledge, and Nature
Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. C.A. Davids
Inbunden, 2018
2661 kr
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In Navigating History: Economy, Society, Knowledge, and Nature the contributors present new research that touches on the core themes developed in Karel Davids’s work. The book reflects Davids’s omnivorous character as a scholar. Nevertheless, there are common strands that run throughout the …
Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India
Av Rolf Bauer
Inbunden, 2019
2205 kr
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Winner of the 2019 Michael Mitterauer-Prize for best monographThe Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India is a pioneering work about the more than one million peasants who produced opium for the colonial state in nineteenth-century India. Based on a profound empirical analysis, Rolf …
Prometheus Tamed
Fire, Security, and Modernities, 1400 to 1900
Inbunden, 2021
2489 kr
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Over 8,200 large city fires broke out between 1000 and 1939 CE in Central Europe. Prometheus Tamed inquires into the long-term history of that fire ecology, its local and regional frequencies, its relationship to climate history. It asks for the visual and narrative representation of that threat in …
Frontiers of Finance: The Political Economy of Public Debt in the Dutch Republic
Inbunden, 2025
2513 kr
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This book analyses the political economy of provincial public debt within the federal Dutch Republic. Frontiers of Finance: The Political Economy of Public Debt in the Dutch Republic shows that the domestic effect of Holland's financial revolution and Amsterdam's subsequent rise to an international …
Trials of Convergence
Prices, Markets and Industrialization in the Netherlands, 1800-1913
Inbunden, 2021
3130 kr
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For over a century now, historians have debated the causes of the lagged industrialization of the Dutch economy during the nineteenth century. To this debate, Trials of Convergence brings the analytical perspective of prices, factor costs and the functioning of markets. Its critical insight is that …
Crucible of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Warfare and European Transitions to Modern Economic Growth
Inbunden, 2021
2156 kr
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Historiographically this book rests on the fact that European transitions to modern economic growth were obstructed and promoted by the Revolution in France and 15 years of geopolitical conflict sustained by Napoleon in order to establish French Hegemony over the states and economies of Britain, …
Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700–1776)
Av Jeremy Land
Inbunden, 2023
2002 kr
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This title is published in Open Access with the support of the University of Helsinki Library.This book takes a long-run view of the global maritime trade of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia from 1700 to American Independence in 1776. Land argues that the three cities developed large, global …
Hydra of Business and Men: The Habsburg Asiento de Negros in Structuring the European Transatlantic Slave Trade
Av Cátia A.P. Antunes, Alejandro García-Monton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1688 kr
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This book offers a historical and historiographical analysis of the Spanish asiento de negros, a contract between the Spanish Monarchy and private parties to introduce specific number of enslaved Africans to Spanish America. As the Spanish American market was the largest single market for enslaved …
