Cities of Commerce : : The Institutional Foundations of International Trade in the Low Countries, 1250-1650 / / Oscar Gelderblom.
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, A...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Princeton Economic History of the Western World ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2. Commercial Cities
- Chapter 3. The Organization of Exchange
- Chapter 4. Crossing Borders
- Chapter 5. Conflict Resolution
- Chapter 6. The Protection of Trade
- Chapter 7. Dealing with Losses
- Chapter 8. Conclusion
- Appendix A. The Incidence of Violence against Foreign Merchants in the Low Countries, 1250-1650
- Appendix B. The Motivation, Organization, and Outcome of Collective Action by Merchants of the German Hanse in Bruges, 1250-1500
- List of Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index