Rise of the Amsterdam Market and Information Exchange
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Amsterdam Market
Amsterdam Merchant
Amsterdam's Trade
amsterdams
Amsterdam’s Trade
Antwerp's Trade
Antwerp’s Trade
archival economic research
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Compagnie Van Verre
Convoy Duty
Cornelis Claesz
De 17e Eeuw
der
Dudok Van Heel
Dutch Republic trade
early modern commerce
Early Modern Trade
economic geography history
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gateway
Gateway System
International Transit Trade
Low Countries
Low Countries commercial restructuring
merchant networks Europe
netherlands
port system transformation
RGP
Semi-fi Nished Goods
southern
Southern Netherlands
staple
Staple Market
system
trading
van
Van Adrichem
Van Der Wee
Van Der Woude
Van Het
Willem Jansz Blaeu
woude
Younger Men
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- ISBN 9780754652205
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Aug 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Most scholars agree that during the sixteenth century, the centre of European international trade shifted from Antwerp to Amsterdam, presaging the economic rise of the Dutch Republic in the following century. Traditionally this shift has been accepted as the natural consequence of a dynamic and progressive city, such as Amsterdam, taking advantage of expanding commercial opportunities at the expense of a more conservative rival hampered by outmoded medieval practices. Yet, whilst this theory is widely accepted, is it accurate? In this groundbreaking study, Clé Lesger argues that the shift of commercial power from Antwerp to Amsterdam was by no means inevitable, and that the highly specialized economy of the Low Countries was more than capable of adapting to the changing needs of international trade. It was only when the Dutch Revolt and military campaigns literally divided the Low Countries into separate states that the existing stable spatial economy and port system fell apart, and a restructuring was needed. Within this process of restructuring the port of Amsterdam acquired a function radically different to the one it had prior to the division of the Netherlands. Before the Revolt it had served as the northern outport in a gateway system centred on Antwerp, but with access of that port now denied to the new republic, Amsterdam developed as the main centre for Dutch shipping, trade and - crucially - the exchange of information. Drawing on a wide variety of neglected archival collections (including those of the Bank of Amsterdam), this study not only addresses specific historical questions concerning the commercial life of the Low Countries, but through the case study of Amsterdam, also explores wider issues of early modern European commercial trade and economic development.
Clé Lesger is Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His research interests include the organization of early modern trade; the spatial economy of the Low Countries; the history of migration; and urban land use and the spatial structure of cities.
