The Merchants Adventurers and the Continental Cloth-trade (1560s-1620s) / Wolf R. Baumann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baumann, Wolf R., author.

Contributor:

Slater, Timothy.

Series:

European University Institute - Series B ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile industry--Europe--History.

Textile industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Reprint 2016

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Examines the effect on the cloth trade in Germany of the monopoly Queen Elizabeth granted to the Merchants Adventurers Company for trade between England and Germany, the Low countries, and other northern ports. Notes the primacy of the textile trade in England and its influence on foreign policy. Chronicles the company's intruding on and eventually replacing the Hanseatic League, and its establishment of cloth marts in several cities before concentrating in Hamburg. Focuses on the English effect on individual branches of trade and crafts, and on economic development. Also discusses the place of both cloth finishing and cloth trading in the overall economy, the methods of trading and crafts, the production and trade sites, the trade flows, agents of trade, and the changes in these systems. Translated from the German, and priced like a medical text. No subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations and Tables

Acknowledgements / Baumann, Wolf-Rüdiger

Introduction

Chapter One. Motives of the Merchants Adventurers for Shifting Their Marts, and Their Criteria of Site Selection

Chapter Two. The State of the Art of Finishing Techniques for English Woollens Used in Germany at the Time

Chapter Three. Chronicle of Developments in Imports of English Woollens to Germany (1564-1611)

Chapter Four. The Merchants Adventurers in Germany

Chapter Five. Centres of the Cloth Trade in Germany (with Antwerp)

Conclusion

Appendix 1. Andreas Ryff from Basel: An Example of How the Business of a Cloth Trader "At Second Hand" Was Run

Appendix 2. Biographical Data on Englishmen Engaged in Trading in Germany - Outside the Mart Towns - in the Latter Half of the Sixteenth and the Early Seventeenth Centuries

Bibliography

Index of Places by Country

Index of Names

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9783110893076

311089307X

OCLC:

1002232501