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The international economy in the "age of the discoveries", 1470-1570, Antwerp and the English merchants' world, Ian Blanchard ; copy-editing by Philipp Robinson Rössner

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The international economy in the "age of the discoveries", 1470-1570, Antwerp and the English merchants' world, Ian Blanchard ; copy-editing by Philipp Robinson Rössner

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-288)

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The international economy in the "age of the discoveries", 1470-1570

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313657708

Responsibility statement

Ian Blanchard ; copy-editing by Philipp Robinson Rössner

Series statement

Studien zur Gewerbe- und Handelsgeschichte der vorindustriellen Zeit, Nr. 29

Sub title

Antwerp and the English merchants' world

Summary

The monograph examines the fluctuations on the Anglo-Netherlands financial and goods markets within the changing parameters of a nascent European-based world economy (1470<U+0127> 1570). It focuses on the major financial centres of the time (Antwerp, London) and examines their interdependencies, as well as their role as agents financing international trade and commodity flows. In this volume an attempt will be made to examine the world of those English merchants who first accessed the international economy in order to distribute English produce (mainly wool, cloth and lead) and secure such goods as were required by the nation's consumers, such as foreign spices and other exotic consumables. By drawing on financial and macro-economic data, such as prices and exchange rates, as well as micro-data, such as individual merchants' accounts, a comprehensive and intimate sketch is drawn of the working mechanisms of an emerging modern, European-centred, world economy --, Provided by Publisher

Table Of Contents

INTRODUCTION. The International Economy in the "Age of the Discoveries". 1470-1570 '. 11 PART I. FINANCIAL AND MONETARY SYSTEMS (I): ANTWERP Chapter 1. The Antwerp Money Market. Prelude to Disaster, 1513-1521 19 Chapter 2. The Antwerp Money Market. The Exchange Crises and their Aftermath, 1521-1526 31 Chapter 3. Bi-metallic Disequilibrium and Monetary Disorder, 1525-1527 45 Chapter 4. The Antwerp Money Market. The Effects of the Central European Mining Crisis, 1527/8 57 Chapter 5. The Antwerp Money Market. The Continuing Crisis, 1526-1540 61 PART II. FINANCIAL AND MONETARY SYSTEMS (II): LONDON Chapter 6. London 1526: From Parochial Backwater to International Financial Centre 79 Chapter 7. International Monetary Systems and Imported Inflation: England, 1531-1534 85 PART HI. PORTS, ROUTES AND TRAFFIC Chapter 8. Antwerp and the "Alternative Commerce". 1505-1523 99 Chapter 9. Crisis and the Old Order, 1523-1528 109 Chapter 10. Route Realignment and English Trade Expansion in Conditions of Price Instability, 1529-1544. 121 Chapter 11. Business Strategies and Commercial Development, 1505-1544 137 PART IV. COMMODITY FLOWS: THE ENGLISH WOOL, CLOTH AND METAL TRADES Chapter 12. The Cloth and Wool Trades. The Heavy Draperies, 1505-1523 147 Chapter 13. The Cloth and Wool Trades. Crisis and Transformation, 1523-1532 175 Chapter 14. The Cloth and Wool Trades. The Supremacy of the "Light" Drapery, 1532-1542 ̃203 Chapter 15. The Metal Trades. The Commerce in English Lead ...217 Chapter 16. The Metal Trades. The English Tin Trade and its Competitors 239 CONCLUSION. Supplications before the Rood 251

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