Dutch Primacy in World Trade, 1585–1740

Israel, Jonathan I.

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“…We look at a larger sample of cities in Table 7 Table 7, we look at a larger set of cities between four dates 1300, 1500, 1700 and 1800. The sample is larger than the one used in Tables 5 and 6 (1978) and world-system theorists such as Wallerstein (1974)(1975)(1976)(1977)(1978)(1979)(1980) Farnell, 1964, Cooper, 1972, and Guaci, 2001 (1998,2001,2002 Carruthers, 1996 and its artillery, methods of transportation, and training were transformed" (see also Israel, 1989, Chapter 3). By 1629, the Dutch were able to field an army of 77,000 men, :;_' 50% larger than the Spanish army of Flanders (Israel, 1995, p. 507 We follow the Polity IV coding handbook in using the following criteria for coding "constraint on the executive" (Marshall and Jaggers, 2000 (Davis, 1973b, p. 41).…”

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The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth

Acemoğlu

Johnson

Robinson

2005

American Economic Review

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The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth

Acemoğlu

Johnson

Robinson

2005

American Economic Review

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“…For instance, one of the first books to appear after Meinig's Shaping of America was Jonathan Israel's Dutch Primacy in World Trade in 1989. 12 Though not intended to situate itself within the colonial history genre, among other controversial theses was Israel's assertion that the Atlantic had been of great importance for the economic development of the Dutch Republic. In contrast to prevailing opinion which emphasised the limited number of Dutch colonial possessions in the West and their minor economic importance to trade and industry in the Dutch Republic, Israel focused on the role of individuals and private concerns rather than on the WIC itself, and showed how, in the first half of the eighteenth century, these private undertakings had been quite successful.…”

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Repositioning the Dutch in the Atlantic, 1680–1800

Oostindië¹,

Roitman²

2012

Itinerario

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After some decades of historical debate about the early modern Atlantic, it has become a truism that the Atlantic may better be understood as a world of connections rather than as a collection of isolated national sub-empires. Likewise, it is commonly accepted that the study of this interconnected Atlantic world should be interdisciplinary, going beyond traditional economic and political history to include the study of the circulation of people and cultures. This view was espoused and expanded upon in the issue of Itinerario on the nature of Atlantic history published thirteen years ago—the same issue in which Pieter Emmer and Wim Klooster famously asserted that there was no Dutch Atlantic empire. Since this controversial article appeared, there has been a resurgence of interest among scholars about the role of the Dutch in the Atlantic. With Atlantic history continuing to occupy a prominent place in Anglo-American university history departments, it seems high time to appraise the output of this resurgence of interest with an historiographical essay reviewing the major works and trends in the study of the Dutch in the Atlantic.

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“…In the historical period of interest, the Netherlands, or more precisely the United Provinces, represented the only federal state in Europe. The strength of Amsterdam in the late 1500s as a center of commercial activity, the trading entrepôt of Europe with its massive commodity warehouses, sophisticated credit techniques, and emergence of speculative financial activity, is well-documented (Barbour, 1950;Israel, 1989;de Vries & van der Woude, 1997). The Dutch actively began exploring the trading route to the East Indies in the 1590s, successfully checking the Portuguese supremacy and making this route consistently important for the United Provinces from then on (Israel, 1989) at Hoorn and Enkhuizen, and with investment being drawn from inland towns such as Delft and Dordrecht.…”

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Political Economy Origins of Financial Markets in Europe and Asia

Andrianova¹,

Demetriades²,

Xu³

2011

World Development

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Summary. We provide historical evidence from London, Amsterdam and Hong Kong which highlights the essential role played by governments in kick-starting financial development. In the cases of London and Amsterdam, the emergence of financial markets was a by-product of the rise of large, politically affiliated, trading monopolies. These monopolies, partly created to improve public finances, were responsible for major financial innovations and helped to strengthen investors' property rights. In Hong Kong, where the financial development model was bank-based, a large banking monopoly with close links to both the British and Chinese governments, set up to finance international trade, played a similar role.Keywords: Property rights, monopoly, politics, institutions, finance JEL: G18, N20, O16 * We would like to thank two anonymous referees for many constructive suggestions. We have benefited from helpful discussions with historians Huw Bowen and Anne Murphy. We would also like to thank participants of World Economy and Finance workshops at the Universities of Leicester and Amsterdam, the 2nd CEDI conference on Development and Institutions at the University of Brunel and the Conference on Finance and Development at the LSE for useful comments. We are particularly grateful to our discussants,

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Dutch Primacy in World Trade, 1585–1740

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The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth

The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth

Repositioning the Dutch in the Atlantic, 1680–1800

Political Economy Origins of Financial Markets in Europe and Asia

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