The Growth of the Antwerp Market and the European Economy
The Growth of the Antwerp Market and the European Economy

Author: H. Van der Wee

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 9401538646

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The economy of Antwerp in the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries had a very special dynamism. It underwent the processes of rise, expansion, maturity and decadence with peculiar intensity. It gave an impressive stimulus to the commercial currents, maritime and contin ental, which converged on the town. It inspired the appearance and growth of new institutions and intensified changes in the social and economic structure. It was the heart of commerce, industry and agricul ture for a large area and particularly of Brabant, Flanders and Zeeland. Moreover Antwerp's economy was an important, and sometimes even the principal, artery of the whole European economy. Antwerp's dynamism was not purely irrational : numerous factors, which a detailed analysis allowed us to ascertain, forced its economic development. The first was le recitatif du cycle to use Braudel's termino logy t. This was however no mere histoire evenementielle. We closely followed the rhythm and even crises of Antwerp's economy, but all these quantitative and qualitative data allowed a comprehensive insight into the interdecennial waves. This permitted a reasonably distant view of the data which made it more possible to observe a logical dynamic. Thus it was not in the first place our purpose to present in this first part a purely documentary report of historical facts. We were rather concerned with the analysis of the factors which determined or influenced the dynamics of the Antwerp market and the economy of the Low Countries.

War and Economic Development
War and Economic Development

Author: David Joslin

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1975-04-10

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780521205351

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This book of essays is a collective treatment of the problem of the impact of war on economic development in Europe. This subject has been neglected despite the fact that the issues it raises are of direct concern to students of military history, the history of science and technology, the history of education, historical demography, as well as to students of political, social and economic history. The contributors to this volume have drawn on work done in all these fields. Taken together, this study provides the foundation for further comparative work on the effect of war and warfare on economic life. The contributors have approached the problem from two sides. The subject of a number of essays is the 'internal history' of armed conflict. These focus on war itself and discuss the mobilization of resources which precedes it and the ways that economic activity and policy are altered by it.

Markets and Growth in Early Modern Europe
Markets and Growth in Early Modern Europe

Author: Victoria N Bateman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1317321731

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This is the first study to analyze a wide spread of price data to determine whether market development led to economic growth in the early modern period.

Pre-Modern European Economy
Pre-Modern European Economy

Author: Paolo Malanima

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009-08-31

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9047440579

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The book deals with the characters and evolution of the European economy from the high Middle Ages until the start of modern growth in the 19th century. Europe is always set in a global context and the European specific features are analysed on the background of the world economy. The main aim of the book is to present a clear picture of the structure and organisation of the European pre-modern economy, specifying its features, institutions, constraints and differences with other traditional coeval economies. The path followed starts from the demographic characters, the techniques, the sectors (agriculture, trade, industry), the output, and continues with the demand side (consumption, investment, public expense). The last chapter recalls the main features of the pre-modern economy in a more formal way. The book is the only available work dealing with the formation of the European economy and its features over the long term, that is from the 10th until the 19th century.

The Modern World-System I
The Modern World-System I

Author: Immanuel Wallerstein

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2011-06-10

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 0520948572

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Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.