France, the Antilles, and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: renewals of foreign trade

Butel, Paul

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“… Sources: Britain: Mitchell and Dean, Abstract of British historical statistics , p. 310. France: Butel, ‘France, the Antilles, and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries’, pp. 163, 170.…”

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The limits of globalization in the early modern world

Vries

2010

The Economic History Review

145

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This article reviews the ways in which historians and economists have applied the term 'globalization' to the early modern era. It distinguishes a soft and a hard definition, and goes on to test the claims made about the driving forces shaping the growth and character of long-distance trade between Europe and Asia in the age of the European trading companies. On the basis of new estimates of the volume and value of European trade with Asia, the article concludes by identifying the factors limiting the growth of trade in this period.

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The limits of globalization in the early modern world

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2010

The Economic History Review

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“…4 Although massive imports of precious metals from the Americas and Africa are considered by historians to have constricted prospects for the long run economic development of Spain and Portugal, bullion turned out to be instrumental for the development of a European and an international monetary system. 15 For more than a century the United Provinces' successful exploitation of the opportunities offered by intercontinental commerce and colonisation aroused the antagonism of rivals, particularly Britain and France, who used military and naval force to weaken the Republic's power and its economy. Without that flexibility and because strategic goods and primary produce from Baltic economies could not be covered by commodity exports, intra-European trades from Northern to Western Europe and to the Mediterranean would surely have been constrained.…”

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“…14 They dwindled to insignificance after the destruction of the rich plantation colony of Haiti (1791) and the loss of other Caribbean islands to Britain during the wars from 1793-1815. 15 For more than a century the United Provinces' successful exploitation of the opportunities offered by intercontinental commerce and colonisation aroused the antagonism of rivals, particularly Britain and France, who used military and naval force to weaken the Republic's power and its economy. 16 Dutch merchants and capital then played a role in helping Britain to rise to a hegemonic position in the expanding global economy.…”

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Balance Sheets for the Acquisition, Retention and Loss of European Empires Overseas

O’Brien¹,

Escosura²

1999

Itinerario

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Our essay will critically survey and attempt to offer an overall interpretation of a growing volume of publications by historians who have attempted to evaluate the costs and benefits for Europe's domestic economies flowing from some five centuries of involvement with empires overseas. That involvement began with the conquest of Ceuta by the Portuguese in 1417 and passed through two epochs: 1417-1825 and 1825-1974. After a first conjuncture marked by the French Revolution, a quarter of a century of global warfare and movements for independence in Southern America, Britain emerged as the hegemonic imperial power in Europe. Its major rivals for commerce and dominion in Africa, Asia and the Americas (Portugal, Spain, France and Holland) ceded control over parts of their possessions overseas to Britain or (in the cases of Spain and Portugal), lost sovereignty over their colonies in Latin America.

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“…12) reviews the final years of the Dutch slave trade. For the contemporaneous expansion of French colonial trade, seeButel (1990) andBoulle (1972:71-74).Wilson (1965:264, 271-2) discusses the slippage of the Netherlands' relative position vis-a-vis England in the Atlantic during the eighteenth century.…”

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Trading States, Trading Places: The Role of Patrimonialism in Early Modern Dutch Development

Adams

1994

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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The decline of Iberia in the sixteenth century shook the foundations of world trade and politics, undermining Spain's Asian and American trade monopolies and creating the international opening that spurred other European states and merchants in the contest for overseas markets. After the waves had subsided in the seventeenth century, the world system had been reconfigured. The United Provinces of the Netherlands had become the first truly global commercial power—the first hegemon. The rise of the Netherlands to the position of world hegemony is at first glance startling. The seven provinces had a relatively small population (some 1.5 million inhabitants in 1600, compared to 10 million in Spain and Portugal, and 16 to 20 million in neighboring France), and had formed part of the Low Countries, an uneasily aggregated group of seigneuries, cities, and provinces under Spanish rule until the 1570s.

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France, the Antilles, and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: renewals of foreign trade

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The limits of globalization in the early modern world

The limits of globalization in the early modern world

Balance Sheets for the Acquisition, Retention and Loss of European Empires Overseas

Trading States, Trading Places: The Role of Patrimonialism in Early Modern Dutch Development

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