Markets and Merchants: Commercial and Cultural Integration in Northwest Europe, 1300-1700
- Richard W. Unger
- © 2019 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6453-857-0.22
Between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries commerce in northern Europe expanded and contracted. The long term net effect of the trade increase was an overall substantial impact on the economy and on the culture of the lands around the North and Baltic Seas. The development of interdependent markets can be indicated by examining the tendency of prices to converge in different places. Relying on previous research and novel ways of constructing indices using price data from a number of ports in northern Europe it is possible to confirm both the long term direction, with ups and downs, toward market integration as well as the emergence in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries of regional markets in certain food grains.
- Keywords:
- economic history,
- international trade,
- commercial networks,
- northern Europe,
- 14th-17th centuries,
University of British Columbia, Canada - ORCID: 0000-0002-8798-0843
Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Markets and Merchants: Commercial and Cultural Integration in Northwest Europe, 1300-1700
Authors
Richard W. Unger
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-857-0.22
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2019
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© 2019 Author(s)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title
Reti marittime come fattori dell’integrazione europea / Maritime Networks as a Factor in European Integration
Editors
Giampiero Nigro
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
592
Publication Year
2019
Copyright Information
© 2019 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-856-3
ISBN Print
978-88-6453-856-3
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-857-0
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-037-3
Series Title
Atti delle «Settimane di Studi» e altri Convegni
Series ISSN
2704-6354
Series E-ISSN
2704-5668