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Cities of Commerce

Author : Oscar Gelderblom
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691168202
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Cities of Commerce written by Oscar Gelderblom and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Merchant Republics

Author : Mary Lindemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107074436
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Merchant Republics written by Mary Lindemann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the ways in which Amsterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg developed dual identities as 'communities of commerce' and republics.

Merchants and Empire

Author : Cathy Matson
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801872471
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Merchants and Empire written by Cathy Matson and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Merchants and Empire, Cathy Matson examines the economic ideas and behavior of New York City's commercial wholesalers, especially the middling merchants who, as a majority of active traders, affected the character of city commerce over its colonial years. Although less prominent in transatlantic dry goods commerce than the great traders, this middling majority spread dissenting economic ideas and flouted political authority time and again when the benefits to their interests were clear. Indeed, middling or lesser merchants fashioned a plausible alternative to mercantilism, and contributed significantly to the challenges Americans offered to British rule in the final colonial years.

Merchants and Revolution

Author : Robert Brenner
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859843338
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Merchants and Revolution written by Robert Brenner and published by Verso. This book was released on 2003-08-17 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major reinterpretation of the transformation of English commerce in the century after 1550.

The Old Merchants of New York City

Author : Walter Barrett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Merchants of New York City written by Walter Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Merchant Houses of Mocha

Author : Nancy Um
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295800232
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book The Merchant Houses of Mocha written by Nancy Um and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaining prominence as a seaport under the Ottomans in the mid-1500s, the city of Mocha on the Red Sea coast of Yemen pulsed with maritime commerce. Its very name became synonymous with Yemen's most important revenue-producing crop -- coffee. After the imams of the Qasimi dynasty ousted the Ottomans in 1635, Mocha's trade turned eastward toward the Indian Ocean and coastal India. Merchants and shipowners from Asian, African, and European shores flocked to the city to trade in Arabian coffee and aromatics, Indian textiles, Asian spices, and silver from the New World. Nancy Um tells how and why Mocha's urban shape and architecture took the forms they did. Mocha was a hub in a great trade network encompassing overseas cities, agricultural hinterlands, and inland market centers. All these connected places, together with the functional demands of commerce in the city, the social stratification of its residents, and the imam's desire for wealth, contributed to Mocha's architectural and urban form. Eventually, in the mid-1800s, the Ottomans regained control over Yemen and abandoned Mocha as their coastal base. Its trade and its population diminished and its magnificent buildings began to crumble, until few traces are left of them today. This book helps bring Mocha to life once again.

Trading Places

Author : Maartje Van Gelder
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004175431
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Trading Places written by Maartje Van Gelder and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 interaction with the Venetian state, which was accustomed to protect its own trade. The Netherlandish merchants in Venice, as part of an extensive international trading network, were ideally placed to connect Mediterranean and Atlantic commerce. They quickly became the most important group of foreign merchants in the city at a time of rapid economic changes. Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, this book shows how these immigrant traders used their strong commercial position to secure a place in Venice. It demonstrates how the changing balance of international commerce affected early modern Venetian society.

London's Triumph

Author : Stephen Alford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620408236
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book London's Triumph written by Stephen Alford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of the dazzling growth of London in the sixteenth century. For most, England in the sixteenth century was the era of the Tudors, from Henry VII and VIII to Elizabeth I. But as their dramas played out at court, England was being transformed economically by the astonishing discoveries of the New World and of direct sea routes to Asia. At the start of the century, England was hardly involved in the wider world and London remained a gloomy, introverted medieval city. But as the century progressed something extraordinary happened, which placed London at the center of the world stage forever. Stephen Alford's evocative, original new book uses the same skills that made his widely-praised The Watchers so successful, bringing to life the network of merchants, visionaries, crooks, and sailors who changed London and England forever. In a sudden explosion of energy, English ships were suddenly found all over the world--trading with Russia and the Levant, exploring Virginia and the Arctic, and fanning out across the Indian Ocean. The people who made this possible--the families, the guild members, the money-men who were willing to risk huge sums and sometimes their own lives in pursuit of the rare, exotic, and desirable--are as interesting as any of those at court. Their ambitions fueled a new view of the world--initiating a long era of trade and empire, the consequences of which still resonate today.

The Merchants' Capital

Author : Scott P. Marler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107354722
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Merchants' Capital written by Scott P. Marler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As cotton production shifted toward the southwestern states during the first half of the nineteenth century, New Orleans became increasingly important to the South's plantation economy. Handling the city's wide-ranging commerce was a globally oriented business community that represented a qualitatively unique form of wealth accumulation - merchant capital - that was based on the extraction of profit from exchange processes. However, like the slave-based mode of production with which they were allied, New Orleans merchants faced growing pressures during the antebellum era. Their complacent failure to improve the port's infrastructure or invest in manufacturing left them vulnerable to competition from the fast-developing industrial economy of the North, weaknesses that were fatally exposed during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Changes to regional and national economic structures after the Union victory prevented New Orleans from recovering its commercial dominance, and the former first-rank American city quickly devolved into a notorious site of political corruption and endemic poverty.

Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004416641
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law examines the connections that existed between merchants’ journeys, the languages they used and the development of commercial law in the context of late medieval and early modern trade. The book, edited by Stefania Gialdroni, Albrecht Cordes, Serge Dauchy, Dave De ruysscher and Heikki Pihlajamäki, takes advantage of the expertise of leading scholars in different fields of study, in particular historians, legal historians and linguists. Thanks to this transdisciplinary approach, the book offers a fresh point of view on the history of commercial law in different cultural and geographical contexts, including medieval Cairo, Pisa, Novgorod, Lübeck, early modern England, Venice, Bruges, nineteenth century Brazil and many other trading centers. Contributors are Cornelia Aust, Guido Cifoletti, Mark R. Cohen, Albrecht Cordes, Maria Fusaro, Stefania Gialdroni, Mark Häberlein, Uwe Israel, Bart Lambert, David von Mayenburg, Hanna Sonkajärvi, and Catherine Squires.

Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World

Author : Kenn Hirth
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
ISBN 13 : 9780884023869
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World written by Kenn Hirth and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines the structure, scale and complexity of economic systems in the pre-Hispanic Americas, with a focus on the central highlands of Mexico, the Maya Lowlands and the central Andes.

The Organization of Ancient Economies

Author : Kenneth Hirth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108863671
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Organization of Ancient Economies written by Kenneth Hirth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Kenneth Hirth provides a comparative view of the organization of ancient and premodern society and economy. Hirth establishes that humans adapted to their environments, not as individuals but in the social groups where they lived and worked out the details of their livelihoods. He explores the variation in economic organization used by simple and complex societies to procure, produce, and distribute resources required by both individual households and the social and political institutions that they supported. Drawing on a wealth of archaeological, historic, and ethnographic information, he develops and applies an analytical framework for studying ancient societies that range from the hunting and gathering groups of native North America, to the large state societies of both the New and Old Worlds. Hirth demonstrates that despite differences in transportation and communication technologies, the economic organization of ancient and modern societies are not as different as we sometimes think.

Merchants and Trading in the Sixteenth Century

Author : Jeroen Puttevils
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317316630
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Merchants and Trading in the Sixteenth Century written by Jeroen Puttevils and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteenth-century Europe was powered by commerce. Whilst mercantile groups from many areas prospered, those from the Low Countries were particularly successful. This study, based on extensive archival research, charts the ascent of the merchants established around Antwerp.

Merchants in the City of Art

Author : Anne L. Schiller
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442634634
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Merchants in the City of Art written by Anne L. Schiller and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and engaging ethnography, written and designed with students in mind, uses the experiences and perspectives of a set of long-time market vendors in San Lorenzo, a neighborhood in the historic center of Florence, Italy, to explore how cultural identities are formed in periods of profound economic and social change.

Medieval Merchants and Money

Author : Martin Allen
Publisher : University of London Press
ISBN 13 : 9781909646162
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Merchants and Money written by Martin Allen and published by University of London Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains selected essays in celebration of the scholarship of the medieval historian Professor James L. Bolton. The essays address a number of different questions in medieval economic and social history, as the volume looks at the activities of merchants, their trade, legal interactions and identities, and on the importance of money and credit in the rural and urban economies. Other essays look more widely at patterns of immigration to London, trade and royal policy, and the role that merchants played in the Hundred Years War.

The Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East

Author : Aaron A. Burke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108495966
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East written by Aaron A. Burke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diachronic, yet nuanced study of Amorite identity from Mesopotamia to Egypt over a millennium of Bronze Age history.

Merchants and Trade Networks in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, 1550-1800

Author : Manuel Herrero Sánchez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317282132
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Merchants and Trade Networks in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, 1550-1800 written by Manuel Herrero Sánchez and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collective volume explores the ways merchants managed to connect different spaces all over the globe in the early modern period by organizing the movement of goods, capital, information and cultural objects between different commercial maritime systems in the Mediterranean and Atlantic basin. Merchants and Trade Networks in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, 1550-1800 consists of four thematic blocs: theoretical considerations, the social composition of networks, connected spaces, networks between formal and informal exchange, as well as possible failures of ties. This edited volume features eleven contributions who deal with theoretical concepts such as social network analysis, globalization, social capital and trust. In addition, several chapters analyze the coexistence of mono-cultural and transnational networks, deal with network failure and shifting network geographies, and assess the impact of kinship for building up international networks between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. This work evaluates the use of specific network types for building up connections across the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Basin stretching out to Central Europe, the Northern Sea and the Pacific. This book is of interest to those who study history of economics and maritime economics, as well as historians and scholars from other disciplines working on maritime shipping, port studies, migration, foreign mercantile communities, trade policies and mercantilism.