David Ormrod (Canterbury University of Kent)

The Rise of Commercial Empires

England and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650 1770
Herausgeber: Feinstein, Charles

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Produktbeschreibung

The Rise of Commercial Empires is a work of major importance for the economic history of both Europe and North America. It is an analysis of a crucial transformation in the history of trade, as London became the centre of a new kind of world economy.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 772g
• ISBN-13: 9780521819268
• ISBN-10: 0521819261
• Artikelnr.: 21666158

Autorenporträt

David Ormrod is Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and a leading authority on British and Dutch commercial history in the early modern period.

Inhaltsangabe

List of maps and illustrations
List of figures
List of tables
Preface and acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. National economies and the history of the market
Part I. England, Holland and the Commercial Revolution: 2. Dutch trade hegemony and English competition, 1650-1700
3. English commercial expansion and the Dutch staplemarket, 1700-1770
Part II. English Trade with the Dutch Staplemarket: 4. Rivalry, crisis and reorganisation in the woollen export trade
5. Import substitution and European linen imports
6. The Dutch staplemarket and the growth of English re-exports
7. England, Holland and the international grain trade
8. The coal trade and energy resources
Part III. Dutch Decline and English Expansion: 9. The shipping industry and the impact of war
10. Protectionism and Dutch economic decline
11. Conclusion. Commercial growth and the divergence of England
Appendixes
Bibliography
Index.