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Cities of Commerce: The Institutional Foundations of International Trade in the Low Countries, 1250-1650
Oscar Gelderblom
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Hardback. Develops a model of institutional change in European commerce based on urban rivalry. This book traces the successive rise of Bruges, Antwerp, and Amsterdam to commercial primacy between 1250 and 1650, showing how dominant cities feared being displaced by challengers while lesser cities sought to keep up by cultivating policies favorable to trade. Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Num Pages: 312 pages, 13 line illus. 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 3H; 3JB; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 241 x 24. Weight in Grams: 578.
Cities of Commerce develops a model of institutional change in European commerce based on urban rivalry. Cities continuously competed with each other by adapting commercial, legal, and financial institutions to the evolving needs of merchants. Oscar Gelderblom traces the successive rise of Bruges, Antwerp, and Amsterdam to commercial primacy between 1250 and 1650, showing how dominant cities feared being displaced by challengers while lesser cities sought to keep up by cultivating policies favorable to trade. He argues that it was this competitive urban network that promoted open-access institutions in the Low Countries, and emphasizes the central role played by the ... Read more
Cities of Commerce develops a model of institutional change in European commerce based on urban rivalry. Cities continuously competed with each other by adapting commercial, legal, and financial institutions to the evolving needs of merchants. Oscar Gelderblom traces the successive rise of Bruges, Antwerp, and Amsterdam to commercial primacy between 1250 and 1650, showing how dominant cities feared being displaced by challengers while lesser cities sought to keep up by cultivating policies favorable to trade. He argues that it was this competitive urban network that promoted open-access institutions in the Low Countries, and emphasizes the central role played by the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
312
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691142883
SKU
V9780691142883
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About Oscar Gelderblom
Oscar Gelderblom is associate professor of economic history at Utrecht University. He is the editor of The Political Economy of the Dutch Republic.
Reviews for Cities of Commerce: The Institutional Foundations of International Trade in the Low Countries, 1250-1650
"[A] rich, nuanced, and convincing account of how adaptively efficient commercial institutions emerged from interactions between merchants and city officials in early modern Europe."
Choice "In this fine book, we get a real sense of the riskiness associated with trade ... And of the efforts urban authorities made to cope with risk."
Paul M Hohenberg, EH.Net "Gelderblom's Cities of Commerce, a work ... Read more
Choice "In this fine book, we get a real sense of the riskiness associated with trade ... And of the efforts urban authorities made to cope with risk."
Paul M Hohenberg, EH.Net "Gelderblom's Cities of Commerce, a work ... Read more