Trade and Economic Developments, 1450-1550
Author: Mavis E. Mate
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781843831891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDetailed examination of the trade and economy of England, in a time of vast changes.
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The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800
Author: Paolo Bernardini
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 600
ISBN-13: 9781571814302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJews and Judaism played a significant role in the history of the expansion of Europe to the west as well as in the history of the economic, social, and religious development of the New World. They played an important role in the discovery, colonization, and eventually exploitation of the resources of the New World. Alone among the European peoples who came to the Americas in the colonial period, Jews were dispersed throughout the hemisphere; indeed, they were the only cohesive European ethnic or religious group that lived under both Catholic and Protestant regimes, which makes their study particularly fruitful from a comparative perspective. As distinguished from other religious or ethnic minorities, the Jewish struggle was not only against an overpowering and fierce nature but also against the political regimes that ruled over the various colonies of the Americas and often looked unfavorably upon the establishment and tleration of Jewish communities in their own territory. Jews managed to survive and occasionally to flourish against all odds, and their history in the Americas is one of the more fascinating chapters in the early modern history of European expansion.
Markets, Trade and Economic Development in England and Europe, 1050-1550
Author: Richard Britnell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-05-31
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 1000938751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEngland's economy between 1050 and 1550 mirrored that of much of continental Europe in its growing dependence upon trade over both short distances and long. The essays in this collection are the fruit of forty years of research into the complex and interrelated issues involved. Describing this change can be achieved in part through quantitative indices, such as the number and size of towns, markets and fairs, and the volume of monetary circulation. A full account also requires a discussion of widespread changes of work experience, customary practices and moral values as households became more dependent upon markets. In addition, the evidence of transformative commercial growth in the medieval period gives rise to numerous questions concerning its relationship to more modern times. Modern economic growth and modern capitalism have often been contrasted starkly with medieval economic stagnation and traditionalism, but recent research implies a more continuous process of economic development than that implied by these older stereotypes. Many of the items in this collection are also relevant to this more discursive aspect of medieval commercialisation.
The Emergence of Modern Europe
Author: Kelly Roscoe
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Published: 2017-07-15
Total Pages: 125
ISBN-13: 1680486225
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The sixteenth century in Europe was a period of vigorous economic expansion that led to social, political, religious, and cultural transformations and established the early modern age. This resource explores the emergence of monarchial nation-states and early Western capitalism during this period. Also examined in depth are the Protestant Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, which exacerbated tensions between states and contributed to the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). Readers will come to understand how these events developed, how they led to the age of exploration, and how they inform modern European history."
Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe
Author: Robert S. Duplessis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-09-18
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780521397735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween the end of the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution, the long-established structures and practices of European agriculture and industry were slowly, disparately, but profoundly transformed. Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe, first published in 1997, narrates and analyzes the diverse patterns of economic change that permanently modified rural and urban production, altered Europe's economy and geography, and gave birth to new social classes. Broad in chronological and geographical scope and explicitly comparative, the book introduces readers to a wealth of information drawn from thoughout Mediterranean, east-central, and western Europe, as well as to the classic interpretations and current debates and revisions. The study incorporates scholarship on topics such as the world economy and women's work, and it discusses at length the impact of the emergent capitalist order on Europe's working people.
London
Author: R. O. Bucholz
Publisher:
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 479
ISBN-13: 9781139518451
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Our contemplation of London must begin, as London began, at the river. The River Thames is a slow moving and rather murky body of water, flowing west to east, about a quarter to an eighth of a mile wide as it passes through the city. To this day, the sinewy thread of the Thames is London's most notable topographical feature, the curving line around which the metropolis orientates itself. As we have seen, this was not by chance. The Romans founded London in imitation of their own great capital city so that London, like Rome, sits on its river at exactly the spot where it narrows enough to bridge (see Map 1). That confluence of west-east river and south-north bridge made London both a military choke-point and an economic funnel long before our arrival sometime in 1550"--
English Inland Trade
Author: Michael Hicks
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2015-07-31
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1782978275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Southampton brokage books are the best source for English inland trade before modern times. Internal trade always matched overseas trade. Between 1430 and 1540 the brokage series records all departures through Southampton’s Bargate, the owner, carter, commodity, quantity, destination and date, and many deliveries too. Twelve such years make up the database that illuminates Southampton’s trade with its extensive region at the time when the city was at its most important as the principal point of access to England for the exotic spices and dyestuffs imported by the Genoese. If Southampton’s international traffic was particularly important, the town’s commerce was representative also of the commonplace trade that occurred throughout England. Seventeen papers investigate Southampton’s interaction with Salisbury, London, Winchester, and many other places, long-term trends and short-term fluctuations. The rise and decline of the Italian trade, the dominance of Salisbury and emergence of Jack of Newbury, the recycling of wealth and metals from the dissolved monasteries all feature here. Underpinning the book are 32 computer-generated maps and numerous tables, charts, and graphs, with guidance provided as to how best to exploit and extend this remarkable resource. An accompanying web-mounted database (http://www.overlandtrade.org) enables the changing commerce to be mapped and visualised through maps and trade to be tracked week by week and over a century. Together the book and database provide a unique resource for Southampton, its trading partners, traders and carters, freight traffic and the genealogies of the middling sort.
Cambridge and Its Economic Region, 1450-1560
Author: John S. Lee
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781902806525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLee studies the population, wealth, trade and markets of Cambridge and its region, and the changes that took place over a century of economic and social transition are detailed.
Trade and Civilisation
Author: Kristian Kristiansen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-07-05
Total Pages: 567
ISBN-13: 1108425410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides the first global analysis of the relationship between trade and civilisation from the beginning of civilisation until the modern era.
A Country Merchant, 1495-1520
Author: Christopher Dyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2012-05-17
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0199214247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major contribution to the economic and social history of a mysterious period, the years around 1500, using new evidence and methods of analysis. Presents a fresh and engaging view of history by highlighting an individual, John Heritage.
