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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974
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From Saint Domingue to the Baltic: diversified markets for plantation produce, and the semiperipheral exploitation of slaves
- 2010
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Ingår i: From the Northern Seas to the Atlantic: Cities, ecology and exchange; 19 March 2010; IHR, London, Britain.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Market demand for plantation produce was crucial for the survival of American slavery well into the 19th century. Re-exports, and thus diversification of markets, became important over the early modern period. This paper studies how the trans-imperial commodity chains of plantation produce enabled an indirect exploitation of slaves even in semiperipheral areas of Europe, and estimates quantitatively how large the contribution of Europe's northern semiperiphery - the Baltic - was in the development of the American slave/plantation complex.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974
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Från Saint Domingue till Göteborg – kolonialvaror och konsumtion i 1700-talets Sverige
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Ingår i: 1700-talets Göteborg (red.Charlotta Dohlvik, Jenny Johansson & Christian Peralva). - Göteborg : Göteborgs stadsmuseum. - 9789186475017 ; , s. 34-47
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Den här artikeln handlar om Göteborgs – och Sveriges – kopplingar till det transatlantiska ekonomiska system som utvecklades under 1700-talet. Det var ett ekonomiskt system byggt på exploatering av slavar och slavars arbetskraft, som på så sätt försåg de europeiska nationernas konsumenter med en lång rad nya, exotiska produkter.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974
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New and old peripheries - Britain, the Baltic and the Americas in the Great Divergence
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Global History. - 1740-0228. ; 5:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In his seminal book The Great Divergence, Kenneth Pomeranz has argued that access to inputs from the vast acreages available in the Americas was crucial for the industrial revolution in Britain. But could no other regions of the world have provided the inputs in demand? Recent research claims that this could have been the case. This paper takes that research one step further by studying Britain’s trade with an old and important peripheral trading-partner, the Baltic, contrasting this to the British trade with America. This paper finds that production for export was not necessarily stagnating in the Baltic, as Pomeranz has claimed. Qualitative aspects of the factor endowment of land did however not enable the production of specific raw materials such as cotton, to meet the increasing demand. Thus, the decreasing role of the Baltic ought to a large extent be attributed to the patterns of British industrialization, and the demand it created for specific raw materials, rather than internal, institutional constraints in the Baltic region.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974
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An early-modern consumer revolution in the Baltic?
- 2010
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of History. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0346-8755 .- 1502-7716. ; 35:2, s. 177-197
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The European consumer revolution has gained increasing attention in recent years. This paper goes beyond the previous scholarly focus upon Western Europe in general, and Britain in particular, by studying the consumer revolution in the Baltic region in general, and Denmark and Sweden in particular. Previous research has underestimated the quantities of ‘new luxuries’ imported into the Baltic region. Disaggregating the region, the empirical evidence shows that the Danish population consumed approximately as much of for example sugar as the British did, already by the late 18th century. The paper argues that this to a large extent can be attributed to the fact that real wages in Denmark were comparatively high at the time, even approaching the levels paid to workers in high-wage countries in north-western Europe. The high wages, together with a number of other factors, thus enabled an early consumer revolution at least in this part of the Baltic.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974
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Balancing the Baltic trade: colonial commodities in the trade on the Baltic , 1773-1856
- 2010
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Economic History Review. - 0358-5522. ; 58:3, s. 188-202
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper attempts to look at the connection between the Atlantic and the Baltic economies during the transition from early modern to the modern era. Previous research has seriously underestimated the importance of colonial commodities traded on the Baltic during this period. Colonial commodities, particularly from the American plantation complex, became ever more important for the Western European balance of payments on the Baltic. Already by the late 18th century, these commodities were on aggregate worth approximately as much as the exports of strategic commodities such as grains or iron from the Baltic at the same time. By the middle of the 19th century, the value of colonial commodities imported to the region far surpassed the value of such key exports from the Baltic. The colonial commodities thus constituted an important part of the balance of payments for the trade on the Baltic.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974
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Power, Plenty and Pressure groups: British and Danish colonialism in the West Indies and the role of the state, 1768-1772
- 2010
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Ingår i: (Trans) colonial (trans) imperial and Atlantic trade in the 18th Century, March 11, 2010, EHESS, Paris, France.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Why was the British crown unable to yield a net revenue from their West Indian possessions during the early modern era, while a country such as Denmark was able to do just that? This paper undertakes a comparison between the two imperial states, since such a comparison might yield important insights into what was yielding revenue from and driving costs of colonialism. The paper argues that the British state had to pay a comparatively high cost for their overseas colonies largely since intra-European conflicts had a tendency of spilling over unto the colonies. The British West Indian lobby was at the same time a rent-seeking special interest successful in keeping the imperial tax burden comparatively low.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974
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The Sound Toll Chamber Commodity Records: estimating the reliability of a potential source to international trade history
- 2010
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Ingår i: International Journal of Maritime History. ; 22:1, s. 229-238
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this essay is to study a primary source material that so far has been used to an extremely limited degree previously: the Sound Toll Chamber Commodity Records (available for the period 1773-1856). The aim is to try to analyse how valuable and trustworthy this source might be for scholars interested in the history of the Baltic. A second aim is also to show that this source material can be particularly valuable in relieving a problem associated with the raw data of the Sound Toll Accounts.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974
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Who Stood to Gain from Colonialism? A Case Study of Early Modern European Colonialism in the Caribbean
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Ingår i: Social Science History Association, 35th Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 18-21 2010.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Did Europe gain from overseas colonies, and if so what parties in Europe? This paper looks at the case of Denmark and its colonies in the West Indies during the early-modern era. All the major parties in Denmark – producers, consumers and the Danish Crown – benefited from the country’s possession of colonies in the West Indies. The results stand in sharp contrast to previous research that has studied British gains from colonialism during the same period of time. The Danish case might thereby diversify the picture of who stood to gain from colonialism and potentially give a more accurate picture of the costs and gains of the first wave of colonialism.
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