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The late Middle Ages witnessed the transformation of the county of Holland from a peripheral agrarian region to a highly commercialised and urbanised one. This book examines how the organisation of commodity markets contributed to this remarkable development. Comparing Holland to England and Flanders, the book shows that Holland’s specific history of reclamation and settlement had given rise to a favourable balance of powers between state, nobility, towns and rural communities that reduced opportunities for rent-seeking and favoured the rise of efficient markets. This allowed burghers, peasants and fishermen to take full advantage of new opportunities presented by changing economic and ecological circumstances in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.
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Keywords
- Commerce
- Commodity exchanges
- Dordrecht
- Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500
- Economic history
- Economics
- Economics, finance, business & management
- Economische geschiedenis
- England
- Europe
- Flanders
- Geographical Qualifiers
- History
- History: earliest times to present day
- Holland
- Humanities
- Instituten
- Institutions
- Markets
- Markten
- Middeleeuwen
- Middle Ages
- Netherlands
- thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Europe::1DDN Netherlands
- thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3K CE period up to c 1500
- thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic history
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology
- Western Continental Europe
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DOI: 10.1163/9789004201491Editions