Merchants And Trading In The Sixteenth Century

Author : Jeroen Puttevils
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317316630
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( 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 256 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.

Author : James D. Tracy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521457354
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Merchant Empires written by James D. Tracy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the rise of the many different trading empires from the end of the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century.

Author : Pierre Jeannin
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merchants of the Sixteenth Century written by Pierre Jeannin and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1972 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gigliola Pagano De Divitiis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521580311
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Italy written by Gigliola Pagano De Divitiis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how England's conquest of Mediterranean trade proved to be the first step in building its future economic and commercial hegemony, and how Italy lay at the heart of that process. In the seventeenth century the Mediterranean was the largest market for the colonial products which were exported by English merchants, as well as being a source of raw materials which were indispensable for the growing and increasingly aggressive domestic textile industry. The new free port of Livorno became the linchpin of English trade with the Mediterranean and, together with ports in southern Italy, formed part of a system which enabled the English merchant fleet to take control of the region's trade from the Italians. In her extensive use of English and Italian archival sources, the author looks well beyond Braudel's influential picture of a Spanish-dominated Mediterranean world. In doing so she demonstrates some of the causes of Italy's decline and its subsequent relegation as a dominant force in world trade.

Author : Robert S. Duplessis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521397735
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe written by Robert S. Duplessis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-09-18 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the end of the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution, the long-established structures and practices of European agriculture and industry were slowly, disparately, but profoundly transformed. Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe, first published in 1997, narrates and analyzes the diverse patterns of economic change that permanently modified rural and urban production, altered Europe's economy and geography, and gave birth to new social classes. Broad in chronological and geographical scope and explicitly comparative, the book introduces readers to a wealth of information drawn from thoughout Mediterranean, east-central, and western Europe, as well as to the classic interpretations and current debates and revisions. The study incorporates scholarship on topics such as the world economy and women's work, and it discusses at length the impact of the emergent capitalist order on Europe's working people.

Author : Erika Monahan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150170396X
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Merchants of Siberia written by Erika Monahan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Merchants of Siberia, Erika Monahan reconsiders commerce in early modern Russia by reconstructing the trading world of Siberia and the careers of merchants who traded there. She follows the histories of three merchant families from various social ranks who conducted trade in Siberia for well over a century. These include the Filat'evs, who were among Russia’s most illustrious merchant elite; the Shababins, Muslim immigrants who mastered local and long-distance trade while balancing private endeavors with service to the Russian state; and the Noritsyns, traders of more modest status who worked sometimes for themselves, sometimes for bigger merchants, and participated in the emerging Russia-China trade. Monahan demonstrates that trade was a key component of how the Muscovite state sought to assert its authority in the Siberian periphery. The state’s recognition of the benefits of commerce meant that Russian state- and empire-building in Siberia were characterized by accommodation; in this diverse borderland, instrumentality trumped ideology and the Orthodox state welcomed Central Asian merchants of Islamic faith. This reconsideration of Siberian trade invites us to rethink Russia’s place in the early modern world. The burgeoning market at Lake Yamysh, an inner-Eurasian trading post along the Irtysh River, illuminates a vibrant seventeenth-century Eurasian caravan trade even as Europe-Asia maritime trade increased. By contextualizing merchants and places of Siberian trade in the increasingly connected economies of the early modern period, Monahan argues that, commercially speaking, Russia was not the "outlier" that most twentieth-century characterizations portrayed.

Author : Thomas Leng
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198794479
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fellowship and Freedom written by Thomas Leng and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first modern study of the Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers - England's most important trading company of the sixteenth century - in its final century of existence as a privileged organisation. Over this period, the Company's main trade, the export of cloth to northwest Europe, was overshadowed by rising traffic with the wider world, whilst its privileges were continually criticised in an era of political revolution. But the Company and its membership were not passive victims of these changes; rather, they were active participants in the commercial and political dramas of the century. Using thousands of neglected private merchant papers, Fellowship and Freedom views the Company from the perspective of its members, in the process bringing to life the complex social worlds of early modern merchants. For members, 'freedom' meant not just the right to access a privileged market, but also to trade independently, which could conflict with the 'fellowship' of corporate affiliation, and the responsibilities to the collective that it entailed. The study's major theme is the challenge of maintaining corporate unity in the face of this and other pressures that the Company faced. It restores the centrality of the Merchant Adventurers within three important historical narratives: England's transition from the margins to the centre of the European, and later global, economy; the rise and fall of the merchant corporation as a major form of commercial government in premodern Europe; and the political history of the corporation in an era of state formation and revolution.

Author : Maartje Van Gelder
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004175431
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( 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.

Author : Maartje van Gelder
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047428870
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( 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 2009-05-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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.

Author : J. N. Ball
Publisher : London : Croom Helm
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merchants and Merchandise written by J. N. Ball and published by London : Croom Helm. This book was released on 1977 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: