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North Eurasian Trade in World History, 1660-1860 - The Economic and Political Importance of the Baltic Sea (Paperback)
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North Eurasian Trade in World History, 1660-1860 - The Economic and Political Importance of the Baltic Sea (Paperback)
Series: Perspectives in Economic and Social History
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This book offers the first long-term analysis of the protracted
struggle between Britain, France, Prussia, Russia, and Sweden for
economic power and political influence in the northern part of the
Eurasian continent between 1660 and 1860. This book shows how their
commercial, diplomatic, and military entanglements determined the
course of Baltic trade from the late seventeenth to the
mid-nineteenth century, provoking, among other things, the decline
of the Dutch Republic and the partitions of Poland-Lithuania. The
author conceptualizes the Baltic Sea as one of North Eurasia's
western border basins, alongside the White, Black, and Caspian
Seas, and employs novel statistical series of Baltic trade as a
proxy for the long-term development of North Eurasian trade in
world history. Based on extensive quantitative evidence and sources
for the history of international relations, this book outlines how
North Eurasian trade became an object of growing tensions between
various larger and smaller powers with a stake in North Eurasia's
riches. The book addresses the long-term impact of mercantilist
policies, territorial greed, and military conflicts in North
Eurasia's border basins, and accentuates the significance of
developments in the preindustrial transport and commercial
infrastructure of the North Eurasian landmass. Employing the
concept of North Eurasia and its different borderlands and border
basins, this book overcomes previous limitations in the
historiography of globalization and sheds light on a large,
continental landmass, which researchers tend to leave aside for the
benefit of a predominant maritime perspective in historical studies
of globalization. North Eurasian Trade in World History, 1660-1860
will be invaluable reading for students and scholars interested in
world history, East European history, and the history of
international relations and trade.
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