England's Baltic Trade in the Early Seventeenth Century Trade
Title | England's Baltic Trade in the Early Seventeenth Century Trade PDF eBook |
Author | J. K. Fedorowicz |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521224253 |
England's relationship with the Baltic trading area has remained a generally neglected aspect of English commercial development in the seventeenth century. The spectacular colonial ventures have traditionally attracted more historical attention, although the Baltic trade in this period was more fundamental to the English economy: it supplied precisely those naval commodities, such as flax, hemp, timber, pitch and tar, which facilitated the creation of fleets for the colonial trades. Medieval English trade had been conditioned by a search for markets, and the predominantly agricultural economy of the Polish Commonwealth proved to be an ideal target for cloth exports. By the early seventeenth century, however, this traditional relationship was changing. The growing English fleets demanded steady supplies of naval stores which Poland was increasingly unable to supply, while the Polish economy, weakened by wars and entering a period of decline, could no longer afford the luxury of cloth imports from England.
Private Profit and the Public Interest in the English Baltic Trade of the Early Seventeenth Century
Title | Private Profit and the Public Interest in the English Baltic Trade of the Early Seventeenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | J. K. Fedorowicz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 18 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | |
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England's Timber Trade in the Last of the 17th and First of the 18th Century, More Especially with the Baltic Sea
Title | England's Timber Trade in the Last of the 17th and First of the 18th Century, More Especially with the Baltic Sea PDF eBook |
Author | C. W. Pearson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 1869 |
Genre | Lumber trade |
ISBN |
England and the Baltic in the Elizabethan Era
Title | England and the Baltic in the Elizabethan Era PDF eBook |
Author | Henryk Zins |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Baltic Sea Region |
ISBN | 9780874711172 |
From Cloth to Iron
Title | From Cloth to Iron PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Åström |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Baltic States |
ISBN |
English Overseas Trade, 1500-1700
Title | English Overseas Trade, 1500-1700 PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph Davis |
Publisher | MacMillan Publishing Company |
Pages | 72 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Urban Societies in East-Central Europe, 1500–1700
Title | Urban Societies in East-Central Europe, 1500–1700 PDF eBook |
Author | Jaroslav Miller |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2016-02-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 131700339X |
Whilst much has been written about early modern urban history, the majority of this work has focussed on Western Europe with relatively little available in English on towns and cities in the former communist East. However, in recent years urban scholars have increasingly looked to a much more inclusive picture of Europe that compares and contrasts development across the whole continent. Dealing primarily with Bohemia, Hungary and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, this book provides an insight into a number of key issues concerning the economic, social and demographic trends in early modern East-Central European urban history. Taking a supra-national perspective, across a long time span, it examines the effects of migration, Reformation, state building and economic change on the transformation of medieval urban communities into early modern societies. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, particularly the registers of new citizens kept by many towns and cities, a fascinating picture of urban development and social structure is reconstructed that not only tells us much about East-Central Europe, but adds to our knowledge of the whole continent.