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30 October 2008

Baltic Connections 1450-1800

http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=29280

Baltic Connections
Archival Guide to the Maritime Relations of the Countries around the Baltic Sea (including the Netherlands) 1450-1800
Edited by Lennart Bes, Edda Frankot and Hanno Brand

Publication year: 2007, Leiden: Brill.

In the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, Northern Europe was a crucible of political, maritime and economic activity. Ships from ports all around the Baltic Sea as well as from the Low Countries plied the Baltic waters, triggering market integration, migration flows, nautical innovations and the dissemination of cultural values. This archival guide is an essential research tool for scholars studying these Baltic connections, providing descriptions of almost 1000 archival collections concerning trade, shipping, merchants, commodities, diplomacy, finances and migration in the years 1450-1800. These rich and varied sources kept at more than 100 repositories in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia and Sweden are herewith collected for the first time.

http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=29280

Series: The Northern World, 36
ISBN-13 (i): 978 90 04 16429 1
ISSN: 1569-1462
Cover: Hardback
Number of pages: vol 1: xxxvi, 788 pp; vol 2: xxvi, 822 pp; vol 3: xxvi, 718 pp.
Number of volumes: 3
 
List price: EUR 315.00 / US$ 450.00


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21 October 2008

Trade Routes: four new references

Munro, John H. 1999.
The Low Countries’ export trade in textiles with the Mediterranean basin, 1200-1600: a cost-benefit analysis of comparative advantages in overland and maritime trade routes. Published in: The International Journal of Maritime History 2 11 (1999): pp. 1-30.
http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10924/

Munro, John H. 2000.
The Changing Fortunes of Fairs in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Warfare, Transaction Costs, and the 'New Institutional Economics'
http://ideas.repec.org/p/tor/tecipa/munro-00-01.html

Galdston, Iago. 1961.
Trade Routes and Medicine.
Bulletin of The New York Academy of Medicine. 1961. May; 37(5): 342–358.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1804663

Blom, Ronald G. 1997.
Space Technology, Ancient Frankincese Trade Routes, and the Discovery of the Lost City of Ubar. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
http://hdl.handle.net/2014/22395


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13 October 2008

Trading Places - the East India Company and Asia 1600-1834

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/trading/home.html
13 Oct 2008

The British Library, London, UK.

Self-description:
"Trading Places - the East India Company and Asia 1600-1834. An exhibition at the British Library 24 May - 22 September 2002. [...] 'Trading Places - the East India Company and Asia' tells a remarkable story. It follows the rise and fall of the Company over 200 years - from its beginnings in London and its first trading post on Asian soil to its expansion into India, China, Indonesia, Japan and Persia until the eventual loss of its trading monopoly in 1834."

Site contents:
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION: * World in 1600 (Background, Iberian Exploration, Dutch Exploration, England, Foundation of the East India Company); * Getting There (Shipbuilding, First Voyage, On Board Ship, Hazards, Cargoes); * Bantam (Where is Bantam?, The Dutch, Market, Making Contact); * Expansion (Why Expand?, Japan, Iran, Yemen); * India (Why India?, Culture & Curiosity, Factors & Forts, Private Trade, Textiles, Politics); * China (Why China?, Trade, Silk, Porcelain, Tea, Opium); * Impacts (Final Years of the EIC, Overview, Asia on Britain, Britain on Asia); * Search. * Contact us; * SIte Map.

URL http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/trading/home.html

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/trading/home.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20070610062850/http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/trading/home.html

Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30


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08 October 2008

The export trade in silk and brocade during the Ming dynasty

http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31946367

An electronic copy of a thesis

Author: Lau, Hoi-tung
Title: The export trade in silk and brocade during the Ming dynasty
Persistent Link: http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31946367
Date/Publisher: 1966 by University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong)
Language: English
Subjects: Silk industry - China | Brocade
Format: Adobe Acrobat PDF


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Tibet's tea trade with Szechuan and other regions in the Ch'ing dynasty

http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31946422


An electronic copy of a thesis

Author: Wong, Hong-hin, Owen
Title: A historical analysis of Tibet's tea trade with Szechuan and other regions in the Ch'ing dynasty
Persistent Link:
http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31946422
Date/Publisher: 1966 by University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong)
Pagination: 458 leaves : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: Chinese
Dept/Program: Chinese
Degree: Master of Arts
LC Subject: Tea trade - China.
Tea trade - Tibet.
China - Commerce - History.


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