The Baltic in the early modern period has been called a 'Nordic Mediterranean'. In the studies collected here, Professor North is concerned to examine the ways in which this Baltic region became integrated into the international division of labour and the emerging world economy. The volume opens with a new introductory essay, and the first section then focuses on commodities exported to Western Europe - grain, timber, flax, hemp and other raw materials. The following studies examine how this ever growing bulk trade stimulated a flow of money and payments in the opposite direction, and led to the formation of the manorial economy and second serfdom in the grain-producing countries of the Baltic hinterlands.
Contents: Introduction; The export trade of Royal Prussia and Ducal
Prussia, 1550-1650; The export of timber and timber by-products from the
Baltic region to Western Europe, 1575-1775; A small Baltic port in the early
modern period: the port of Elbing in the 16th and 17th century; The
lighterman business in the Baltic ports: Danzig, Elbing and Kƶnigsberg
(16th-18th centuries); The Baltic trade and the decline of the Dutch economy
in the 18th century; Hamburg: the continent's most English city; The
European rice trade in the 18th and early 19th centuries; Der GroĆe
LĆ¼becker MĆ¼nzschatz von 1533 als Quelle der hansischen
Wirtschaftsgeschichte; Banking and credit in Northern Germany in the 15th and
16th centuries; Bullion transfer from Western Europe to the Baltic and the
problem of trade balances, 1550-1750; Bullion transfer from Western Europe to
the Baltic and to Asia, 1550-1750: a comparison; Geldumlauf und
Wirtschaftsregion: Untersuchungen am Beispiel Kƶniglich PreuĆens und des
Herzogtums PreuĆen in der FrĆ¼hen Neuzeit; Die frĆ¼hneuzeitliche
Gutswirtschaft als Problem der polnischen und deutschen
wirtschaftshistorischen Forschung; Untersuchungen zur adligen Gutswirtschaft
im Herzogtum PreuĆen des
16. Jahrhunderts; Die frĆ¼hneuzeitliche
Gutswirtschaft in Schleswig-Holstein; Wage labour versus corvée labour in
East Prussian agriculture (16th-18th centuries); Abgaben und Dienste in der
ostdeutschen Landwirtschaft vom SpƤtmittelalter bis zur Bauernbefreiung:
BestimmungsgrĆ¼nde fĆ¼r die langfristigen Substitutionsprozesse; Ducal
Prussia: an internal periphery? (16th-18th centuries); Englische
Reiseberichte des
17. Jahrhunderts als Quelle zur Geschichte der
kƶniglich-preuĆischen StƤdte Danzig, Elbing und Thorn; Index.
Michael North, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat, Greifswald, Germany
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