Globalized Peripheries : Central Europe and the Atlantic World, 1680-1860
Globalized Peripheries examines the commodity flows and financial ties within Central and Eastern Europe in order to situate these regions as important contributors to Atlantic trade networks.
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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Melton : Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated,
2020
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| Titres liés à la collection: | People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History Ser.
v.Volume 16 |
| Sujets: | Atlantic Ocean Region-History Europe, Central-Foreign economic relations-Atlantic Ocean Region Europe, Central-Commerce-Atlantic Ocean Region Atlantic Ocean Region-Foreign economic relations-Europe, Central Atlantic Ocean-Commerce-Europe, Central Europe, Central-History Electronic books |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (285 pages) |
| Résumé: | Globalized Peripheries examines the commodity flows and financial ties within Central and Eastern Europe in order to situate these regions as important contributors to Atlantic trade networks. Front cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1: Constructing Atlantic Peripheries: A Critical View of the Historiography -- 2: Did Prussia have an Atlantic History?The Partitions of Poland-Lithuania, the French Colonization of Guiana, and Climates in the Caribbean, c. 1760s to 1780s -- 3: A Fierce Competition! Silesian Linens and Indian Cottons on the West African Coast in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries -- 4: Prussia's New Gate to the World: Stettin's Overseas Imports (1720-1770) and Prussia's Rise to Power -- 5: Luxuries from the Periphery: The Global Dimensions of the Eighteenth-Century Russian Rhubarb Trade -- 6: Atlantic Sugar and Central Europe: Sugar Importers in Hamburg and their Trade with Bordeaux and Lisbon, 1733-1798 -- 7: A Gateway to the Spanish Atlantic? The Habsburg Port City of Trieste as Intermediary in Commodity Flows between the Habsburg Monarchy and Spain in the Eighteenth Century -- 8: A Cartel on the Periphery: Wupper Valley Merchants and their Strategies in Atlantic Trade (1790s-1820s) -- 9: Linen and Merchants from the Duchy of Berg, Lower Saxony and Westphalia, and their Global Trade in Eighteenth-Century London -- 10: Ambiguous Passages:Non-Europeans Brought to Europe by the Moravian Brethren during the Eighteenth Century -- 11: German Emigrants as a Commodity in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World -- 12: Reorienting Atlantic World Financial Capitalism: America and the German States -- 13: Afterword -- Bibliography of Secondary Works Cited -- Index. |
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| Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (285 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781787449220 178744922X 9781783274758 1783274751 |