The international economy in the "age of the discoveries", 1470-1570 : Antwerp and the English merchants' world / Ian Blanchard ; copy-editing by Philipp Robinson Rössner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blanchard, Ian.

Series:

Studien zur Gewerbe- und Handelsgeschichte der vorindustriellen Zeit ; Nr. 29.

Studien zur Gewerbe- und Handelsgeschichte der vorindustriellen Zeit ; Nr. 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Finance.

History.

Commerce.

Great Britain--Commerce--History--16th century.

Great Britain.

Finance--England--History--16th century.

England.

Physical Description:

288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009.

Summary:

The monograph examines the fluctuations on the Anglo-Netherlands financial and goods markets within the changing parameters of a nascent European-based "world economy" (1470-1570). It focuses on the major financial centres of the time (Antwerp, London) and examines their interdependencies, as well as their role as agents financing international trade and commodity flows. In this volume an attempt will be made to examine the world of those English merchants who first accessed the international economy in order to distribute English produce (mainly wool, cloth and lead) and secure such goods as were required by the nation's consumers, such as foreign spices and other exotic consumables. By drawing on financial and macro-economic data, such as prices and exchange rates, as well as micro-data, such as individual merchants' accounts, a comprehensive and intimate sketch is drawn of the working mechanisms of an emerging modern, European-centred, world economy.

Notes:

Originally written 1998--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-288).

ISBN:

9783515093293

351509329X

OCLC:

313657708