Chapter Markets and Merchants: Commercial and Cultural Integration in Northwest Europe, 1300-1700

• Tác giả: Richard W Unger
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-8864538570
• ISBN: 9788864538570.22
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 387 Water, air, space transportation
• Thông tin xuất bản: Florence : Firenze University Press, 2019
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (22 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 242294

Tóm tắt

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.