International Economy of the 'Age of the Discoveries', 1470-1570. Antwerp and the English merchant's world
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- Author(s) Blanchard, Ian
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2009
- Pages 288pp
- Publisher Franz Steiner Verlag
- Place Published Stuttgart
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with Anglo-Netherlands financial and goods markets at Antwerp and London, then the two dominant international commercial centres, and their role in international trade and commodity flows. Focuses especially on English merchants in accessing for the first time the international economy in order to distribute English cloth, wool and metals. Structured in four parts: 1] 'Financial and monetary systems - Antwerp'; 2] 'Financial and monetary systems - London'; 3] 'Ports, routes and traffic'; 4] 'Commodity flows - the English wool, cloth and metal trades. In the latter part, five essays cover trades in cloth, wool, lead, tinplate