Trade, migration and urban networks in port cities, c. 1640-1940 /
This study offers an exploration of the role of merchants throughout maritime history through the analysis of maritime trade networks. It attempts to fill in the gaps in the historiography to determine the range of activities that maritime merchants undertook. It is comprised of nine chapters: one i...
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| Language: | English |
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St. John's, Nfld. :
International Maritime Economic History Association,
©2008.
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| Series: | Research in maritime history ;
no. 38. |
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Table of Contents:
- Trade, migration and urban networks, c. 1640-1940: an introduction / Adrian Jarvis and Robert Lee
- Portuguese Jews in Amsterdam: an insight on entrepreneurial behaviour in the Dutch Republic / Cátia Antunes
- Contrasting merchant communities in the early eighteenth century: Stockholm, Calabar and Charleston / Chris Evans and Göran Rydén
- Integration of immigrant merchants in Trondheim in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Ida Bull
- In the eye of the storm: the influence of maritime and trade networks on the development of Ostend and vice versa during the eighteenth century / Jan Parmentier
- Exploiting international webs of relations: immigrants and reopening of the harbour of Antwerp on the eve of the ninteenth century / Hilde Greefs
- Migrants, merchants and philanthropists: hierarchies in ninteenth-century Greek ports / Athanasios Gekas
- Port cities, diaspora communities and emerging nationalism in the Ottoman Empire: Balkan merchants in Odessa and their network in the early nineteenth century / Oliver Schulz
- Combining business and pleasure? Cotton brokers in the Liverpool business community in the late nineteenth century / Sari Mäenpää.
