Early Modern Shipping and Trade, : Novel Approaches Using Sound Toll Registers Online.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in maritime history ; Volume 5
• TeilnehmendeR: Veluwenkamp, Jan Willem, 1951-; Scheltjens, Werner,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Studies in Maritime History 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 243 pages).

Early modern trade and shipping through the Danish Sound has attracted the interest of many historians since a long time. A prominent reason for this is that the route via the Sound connected Europe’s main economies with the economically important Baltic Sea region. The other reason why trade and shipping through the Sound attracted the attention of so many scholars is the fact that they are so very well documented by the Sound Toll Registers (STR): the records of the toll levied by the king of Denmark on the passage of ships through the Sound. Although the Sound Toll Registers have always been widely known as crucial, their sheer volume and detail make them virtually impossible to handle. To make the STR fully and quickly accessible to researchers, the online database Sound Toll Registers Online (STRO) has been called into existence. Since 2010, STRO has been becoming gradually available. The articles collected in this volume are examples of the kind of research that can be done with STRO, how it boosts the writing of the history of European maritime transport and trade, and how its use contributes to our knowledge of that history. Contributors are: Loïc Charles, Ana Crespo Solana, Guillaume Daudin, Maarten Draper, Jari Eloranta, Katerina Galani, Lauri Karvonen, Yuta Kikuchi, Sven Lilja, Maria Cristina Moreira, Jari Ojala, Pierrick Pourchasse, Magnus Ressel, Klas Rönnbäck, Werner Scheltjens, Siem van der Woude, Jerem van Duijl, and Jan Willem Veluwenkamp.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Illustrations, Maps, Graphs and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- A Closer Look: STRO as an Instrument for the Study of Early Modern Maritime History1 / Werner Scheltjens , Jan Willem Veluwenkamp and Siem van der Woude -- Commodity Flows -- The Impact of the Partitions of Poland on the Structure of Baltic Trade / Magnus Ressel -- The Sound Toll Registers as a Mirror of Stockholm’s Foreign Trade c. 1770–1790 / Sven Lilja -- War of Hunger: Supplying the French Republic during the Revolutionary Wars (1793–1795) / Pierrick Pourchasse -- Comparisons in Context -- Dutch Trade and Spatial Integration between the Baltic and Spain, 1700–1778 / Ana Crespo Solana -- Trade through Lübeck Instead of the Sound – Route Choice in Early Modern Hamburg’s Baltic Trade1 / Yuta Kikuchi -- The Story of Two Straits: British Shipping to the Baltic and the Mediterranean in the Late Eighteenth Century / Katerina Galani -- Source Critical Arguments -- Cross-checking STRO with the French Balance du Commerce Data / Loïc Charles and Guillaume Daudin -- Trade between Sweden and Portugal in the Eighteenth Century: Assessing the Reliability of STRO Compared to Swedish and Portuguese Sources1 / Jari Ojala , Lauri Karvonen , Maria Cristina Moreira and Jari Eloranta -- Name Data Analyses -- The Speed of Early Modern Shipping in the Baltic – A Tentative Exploration using STRO / Klas Rönnbäck -- Shipmasters from the West Frisian Islands in Baltic Shipping, 1737–1800 / Maarten Draper and Jerem van Duijl -- Conclusions / Jan Willem Veluwenkamp and Werner Scheltjens -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.