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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.
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.
Early modern trade and shipping through the Danish Sound has
attracted the interest of many historians since a long time. A
prominent reason for this is that the route via the Sound connected
Europe's main economies with the economically important Baltic Sea
region. The other reason why trade and shipping through the Sound
attracted the attention of so many scholars is the fact that they
are so very well documented by the Sound Toll Registers (STR): the
records of the toll levied by the king of Denmark on the passage of
ships through the Sound. Although the Sound Toll Registers have
always been widely known as crucial, their sheer volume and detail
make them virtually impossible to handle. To make the STR fully and
quickly accessible to researchers, the online database Sound Toll
Registers Online (STRO) has been called into existence. Since 2010,
STRO has been becoming gradually available. The articles collected
in this volume are examples of the kind of research that can be
done with STRO, how it boosts the writing of the history of
European maritime transport and trade, and how its use contributes
to our knowledge of that history. Contributors are: Loic Charles,
Ana Crespo Solana, Guillaume Daudin, Maarten Draper, Jari Eloranta,
Katerina Galani, Lauri Karvonen, Yuta Kikuchi, Sven Lilja, Maria
Cristina Moreira, Jari Ojala, Pierrick Pourchasse, Magnus Ressel,
Klas Roennback, Werner Scheltjens, Siem van der Woude, Jerem van
Duijl, and Jan Willem Veluwenkamp.
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