LEADER 03864oam 2200541I 450 001 9910154571903321 005 20230808200703.0 010 $a1-351-88261-9 010 $a1-315-23729-6 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315237299 035 $a(CKB)3710000000965820 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4758696 035 $a(OCoLC)973027748 035 $a(BIP)63366066 035 $a(BIP)12479847 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000965820 100 $a20180706e20162006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe rise of the Amsterdam market and information exchange $emerchants, commercial expansion and change in the spatial economy of the Low Countries, c.1550-1630 /$fle Lesger ; translated by J.C. Grayson 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (339 pages) $cillustrations, maps 300 $aFirst published 2006 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 08$a0-7546-5220-3 311 08$a1-351-88262-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $apt. I. Trade in Amsterdam and the spatial economy of the low countries -- pt. II. Amsterdam and the organization of trade in the early modern period. 330 $aMost scholars agree that during the sixteenth century, the centre of European international trade shifted from Antwerp to Amsterdam, presaging the economic rise of the Dutch Republic in the following century. Traditionally this shift has been accepted as the natural consequence of a dynamic and progressive city, such as Amsterdam, taking advantage of expanding commercial opportunities at the expense of a more conservative rival hampered by outmoded medieval practices. Yet, whilst this theory is widely accepted, is it accurate? In this groundbreaking study, Cle? Lesger argues that the shift of commercial power from Antwerp to Amsterdam was by no means inevitable, and that the highly specialized economy of the Low Countries was more than capable of adapting to the changing needs of international trade. It was only when the Dutch Revolt and military campaigns literally divided the Low Countries into separate states that the existing stable spatial economy and port system fell apart, and a restructuring was needed. Within this process of restructuring the port of Amsterdam acquired a function radically different to the one it had prior to the division of the Netherlands. Before the Revolt it had served as the northern outport in a gateway system centred on Antwerp, but with access of that port now denied to the new republic, Amsterdam developed as the main centre for Dutch shipping, trade and - crucially - the exchange of information. Drawing on a wide variety of neglected archival collections (including those of the Bank of Amsterdam), this study not only addresses specific historical questions concerning the commercial life of the Low Countries, but through the case study of Amsterdam, also explores wider issues of early modern European commercial trade and economic development. 606 $aMerchants$zNetherlands$zAmsterdam$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aMerchants$zNetherlands$zAmsterdam$xHistory$y17th century 607 $aAmsterdam (Netherlands)$xCommerce$xHistory$y16th century 607 $aAmsterdam (Netherlands)$xCommerce$xHistory$y17th century 607 $aNetherlands$xHistory$yEighty Years' War, 1568-1648 615 0$aMerchants$xHistory 615 0$aMerchants$xHistory 676 $a381/.09492/35209031 700 $aLesger$b Cl$g(Cle),$0916745 701 $aGrayson$b J. C$g(J. Chris)$0916746 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154571903321 996 $aThe rise of the Amsterdam market and information exchange$92055218 997 $aUNINA