England's Baltic trade in the early seventeenth century: a study in Anglo-Polish commercial diplomacy

England's relationship with the Baltic trading area has remained a generally neglected aspect of English commercial development in the seventeenth century. The spectacular colonial ventures have traditionally attracted more historical attention, although the Baltic trade in this period was more...

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1. Verfasser: Fedorowicz, J. K. 1949- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1980
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in economic history
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Zusammenfassung:England's relationship with the Baltic trading area has remained a generally neglected aspect of English commercial development in the seventeenth century. The spectacular colonial ventures have traditionally attracted more historical attention, although the Baltic trade in this period was more fundamental to the English economy: it supplied precisely those naval commodities, such as flax, hemp, timber, pitch and tar, which facilitated the creation of fleets for the colonial trades. Medieval English trade had been conditioned by a search for markets, and the predominantly agricultural economy of the Polish Commonwealth proved to be an ideal target for cloth exports. By the early seventeenth century, however, this traditional relationship was changing. The growing English fleets demanded steady supplies of naval stores which Poland was increasingly unable to supply, while the Polish economy, weakened by wars and entering a period of decline, could no longer afford the luxury of cloth imports from England
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 334 pages)
ISBN:9780511896170
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511896170