Clé Lesger

The Rise of the Amsterdam Market and Information Exchange (eBook, ePUB)

Merchants, Commercial Expansion and Change in the Spatial Economy of the Low Countries, c.1550-1630

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This groundbreaking study challenges the notion that the shift of commercial power from Antwerp to Amsterdam in the sixteenth century was inevitable, and that the persistence of medieval practices in the former city doomed it to economic decline. Instead, it is argued that the physical division of the Low Countries into separate, hostile, states forced Amsterdam to redefine its role as trading capital of the Dutch Republic, and provided it with unique opportunities that it fully exploited.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351882613
• Artikelnr.: 49365548

Autorenporträt

Clé Lesger is Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His research interests include the organization of early modern trade; the spatial economy of the Low Countries; the history of migration; and urban land use and the spatial structure of cities.