Chapter Markets and Merchants: Commercial and Cultural Integration in Northwest Europe, 1300-1700

Between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries commerce in northern Europe expanded and contracted. The long term net effect of the trade increase was an overall substantial impact on the economy and on the culture of the lands around the North and Baltic Seas. The development of interdependent ma...

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Main Author: Unger, Richard W (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Florence Firenze University Press 2019
Series:Atti delle «Settimane di Studi» e altri Convegni 50
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