The Rise of the Amsterdam Market and Information Exchange: Merchants, Commercial Expansion and Change in the Spatial Economy of the Low Countries, C. 1550-1630This 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Trade in Amsterdam and the spatial economy of | 15 |
Continuity and change in the gateway system | 62 |
Commercial expansion in Amsterdam and changes | 100 |
Established merchants and newcomers in Amsterdam | 139 |
Amsterdam and the organization of trade in the early | 181 |
Amsterdam as a centre of information supply | 214 |
Summary and conclusion | 258 |
A The levy of import and export duties during the Revolt | 267 |
Number of entries and items in the assessment registers | 277 |
B The archives of the Amsterdam Wisselbank and | 279 |
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Page 304 - Observations in his Travailes: "upon the state of the XVII. provinces as they stood anno dom. 1609, the treatie of peace being then on foote." Published by Sir THOMAS OVERBURY in 1626. " This," says Wood, in his Athena Oxonienut, " goes under his name, but doubted by some whether he wrote it.