The 'Mother of all Trades'

The Baltic Grain Trade in Amsterdam from the Late 16th to the Early 19th Century

Milja van Tielhof (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

424 Seiten

2002
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-12546-9 (ISBN)

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This book aims to present a general history of the Amsterdam grain trade on the Baltic in the early-modern period, and concentrates particularly on the development and role of transaction costs.

In the early-modern period, the Dutch called the grain trade on the Baltic the 'mother of all trades', as they considered it to be the basis of most of their trade and shipping and indeed the cornerstone of the Dutch economy. For a very long time the mass grain exports from the Baltic were dominated by the Dutch, and Amsterdam was the central entrepôt from which the grain was distributed over the Dutch hinterland and the rest of Europe.

This book aims to present a general history of the 'mother of all trades' and particularly shows the fundamental importance for transaction costs, including the costs for transport, insurance and protection, the quality of the local services sector in Amsterdam, the influence of monetary and mercantile policies, and the efficiency of trade organization.

Milja van Tielhof, studied Economic History at the University of Leiden and the Université de Provence. Her Ph.D. thesis was published in 1995: De Hollandse graanhandel. Koren op de Amsterdamse molen. 1470-1570. She currently works at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.

List of illustrations
List of tables, graphs, figures and maps
Preface

Introduction
1. Cornelis Pietersz Hooft (1547-1626): booming business in an age of expansion
2. The great waves in the history of Baltic grain exports
3. The Amsterdam entrepot
4. Market organization and enterprises
5. Information and agency
6. The Dutch mercantile marine and transport costs
7. Risks at sea and the Board of Baltic Trade and Shipping
8. The service sector in Amsterdam
9. Willem de Clercq (1795-1844): commission business in heavy weather
Conclusion

Appendices
Abbreviations
Primary sources
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.5.2002
Reihe/Serie	The Northern World ; 3
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	893 g
Einbandart	Paperback
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Technik
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	90-04-12546-9 / 9004125469
ISBN-13	978-90-04-12546-9 / 9789004125469
Zustand	Neuware