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Handbook of World Exchange Rates, 1590-1914
As a world economy emerged from the 16th-17th centuries onwards, a global cashless payment system arose. This had its base in Europe, first in Italy, then in the rising regions of the north-west, with Amsterdam and then London as the central financial market. The mutual quotation of exchange rates, which provide the data tabulated and analysed here, mark the integration into a global network of all areas with significant economic potential.The primary aim of this book is to provide a compact account of the exchange rates in all these financial markets, from the late 16th century up to the First World War. This makes possible an instant conversion between the major world currencies at nearly any date within that period, while the important introduction provides the explanation and context of developments. The present handbook therefore serves as an invaluable resource for those concerned with all aspects of commercial and financial history.
Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond
This book offers a new perspective on the concept of modernity. Since its invention as a contrast to Antiquity or the Middle Ages, modernity has been tied to ideas of superiority, progress, and efficiency. As a counterpart to the Marxist “history of class struggle”, “modernization theories” have transformed modernity into an almost teleological concept of historical development. These strong connotations obstruct a clear look at other forms of modernity. The contributions of the volume will show in a comparative perspective how modernity can also be understood and analyzed as multiple responses of societies and polities to organize themselves in facing ever more complex and integrated interactions at ever larger scales.
Mining, Money and Markets in the Early Modern Atlantic
This volume documents recent efforts to track the transformation and trajectory of silver during the early modern period, from its origins in ores located on either side of the Atlantic to its use as currency in the financial centres of continental Europe. As a point of comparison, copper mining and its monetary use in the early modern Atlantic World will also be considered. Contributors rely mainly on economic and economic history methodologies, complemented by geographical and cultural history approaches. The use of novel software applications as tools to explain economic-historical episodes is also detailed.
The Global Lives of Things
The Global Lives of Things considers the ways in which ‘things’, ranging from commodities to works of art and precious materials, participated in the shaping of global connections in the period 1400-1800. By focusing on the material exchange between Asia, Europe, the Americas and Australia, this volume traces the movements of objects through human networks of commerce, colonialism and consumption. It argues that material objects mediated between the forces of global economic exchange and the constantly changing identities of individuals, as they were drawn into global circuits. It proposes a reconceptualization of early modern global history in the light of its material culture by asking...
Austria Supreme (if it so Wishes) (1684): 'A Strategy for European Economic Supremacy
Austria Supreme (if it so wishes) (1684) provides a translation of and a scholarly introduction to the Austrian-German Mercantilist classic Oesterreich über Alles Wann es Nur Will (1684) by Philipp Wilhelm von Hörnigk. Published a few months after the unsuccessful 1683 siege of Vienna by the Turks, a turning point in European history, the book stayed in print for more than 100 years. This was the most widely read German language economic textbook of the period, containing, in a nutshell, the essential ingredients of economic strategy that would make Austria and Europe grow rich and eventually overtake the rest of the world as the first world region that experienced an industrial revolution. In Oesterreich über Alles Wann es Nur Will Hörnigk updates and redefines the Mercantilist political economy – a strategy for achieving national wealth and political strength simultaneously by building up a competitive domestic manufacturing industry with the help of the state. Austria Supreme (if it so wishes) (1684) is the first-ever English translation of a work whose importance for European economic development and the ‘European Miracle’ cannot be overestimated.
The Power of Persuasion
Lucas Haasis found a time capsule: A complete mercantile letter archive of the merchant Nicolaus Gottlieb Luetkens who lived in 18th century Hamburg. Luetkens travelled France between 1743-1745 in order to become a successful wholesale merchant. He succeeded in this undertaking via both shrewd business practice and proficient skills in the practice of letter writing. Based on this unique discovery, in this microhistorical study Lucas Haasis examines the crucial steps and activities of a mercantile establishment phase, the typical letter practices of Early Modern merchants, and the practical principles of persuasion leading to success in the 18th century.
The Rise of the Atlantic Economy and the North Sea/Baltic Trade, 1500-1800
These conference proceedings from the XVth World Economic History Congress discuss the economic relationship between the Atlantic World and the North Sea/Baltic region in the pre-industrial period. Yet, the relationship is not seen only in terms of commodity and capital flows. Different patterns of trade and political economies of early modern states come into focus, too. The individual contributions pay attention to institutional conditions of trade, as well as cross-cultural entrepreneurship. The role of Atlantic colonial commodities for the transformation of the Baltic and North Sea trades is examined. Economic policies are stressed as crucial for a more thorough understanding of such phenomena as the shift of Scotland's trade from the east to the west, and for the success of Danish and Swedish shipping businesses during the period. In this way the editors hope that the volume will act as a trigger for further studies on a topic that has been hitherto neglected vis-�-vis an ever-growing body of literature on the early modern Atlantic economies: An impartial and comprehensive understanding of the Atlantic can only be achieved by factoring the Baltic into the picture.
Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Eine umfassende Bilanz der sozial- und wirtschaftshistorischen Forschung. Die Autoren zeigen Desiderate auf und untersuchen die wechselseitigen Beziehungen zu den Nachbarf�chern. Die Studienausgabe des bereits als VSWG-Beiheft erschienen Bandes wendet sich an Lehrende und Studierende der Allgemeinen Geschichte, der Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften und an alle, die sich fuer Geschichte interessieren. ein "� beeindruckendes Werk. � Wer sich einen �berblick ueber das Fach Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte und seine Teildisziplinen und Arbeitsgebiete verschaffen m�chte, der findet mit dem vorliegenden Band einen informativen und umfassenden Z...
From Mountain Fastness to Coastal Kingdoms
Money is central to the functioning of economies, yet for the pre modern period, our knowledge of monetary systems is still evolving. Until recently, historians of the medieval world have conflated the use of coins with a high degree of monetization. States without coinage were considered under-monetized. It is becoming more evident, however, that some medieval states used money in complex ways without using coinage. Moneys of account supplanted coins wholly or in part. But there is an imbalance of evidence: coins survive physically, while intangible forms of money leave little trace. This has skewed our understanding. Since coin usage has been well studied in the past, these essays flesh ou...
Das 17. und 18. Jahrhundert und Große Themen der Geschichte Preußens
Mit diesem Band ist das auf drei Bände angelegte Handbuch für Preußische Geschichte abgeschlossen. Sein zeitlicher Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Frühen Neuzeit (16.-18. Jahrhundert). Staat und Politik werden im chronologischen Überblick dargestellt. Von den „großen Themen“ der preußischen Geschichte werden das Verhältnis Brandenburg-Preußens nach Westeuropa, Brandenburg (Preußen) im Alten Reich, die Hugenotten als Minorität sowie die Geschichte Berlins als Residenzort dargestellt. Eine historiografische Einleitung referiert die Entwicklung Brandenburg-Preußens als Forschungsproblem von den landesgeschichtlichen Anfängen über die Epochen der Verwissenschaftlichung des Preußenthemas im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert über die Umbrüche von Diktaturen bis an die Schwelle zur Gegenwart. Mit seiner umfangreichen kritischen Bilanz verleiht das Handbuch der wissenschaftlichen Arbeit auf diesem Feld neue Impulse.
