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- Aldman, Lili-Annè, 1955-
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En merkantilistisk början : Stockholms textila import 1720–1738
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The purpose of this thesis is to, from an institutional approach, study how the Stockholm importers within the textile sector adapted their foreign trade to the change in economic policy 1720 through 1738. The focus is to investigate to what extent the introduction of new laws, regulations etc. can be an explanation for what happened to Stockholm’s foreign trade, mainly imports, particularly textile imports during the period. It is mainly the economic policies that had been enacted during the Hornian government and their effects that have been studied. This is a period that has seldom been studied in other research. This thesis begins when the Russian raids were over. This was a year when the foreign trade still was relatively free and was untouched by the 17th century’s regulations. After 1721 the policies that would be introduced to increase Sweden's level of self-sufficiency and strengthen ties with the North Sea area had several components. Besides the economic policy, the main sources for the thesis are the city toll records. The trade policies in the shape of tolls and fees, import and consumption bans etc. and the commercial policies together became different kinds of political tools used for several purposes. The conclusion of this thesis is that the economic policies made the Stockholm importers adapt their trade to the change. The import bans and sumptuary laws had an effect. The economic policies gave rise to an increase in the import of textile raw materials. The rise in toll costs and import fees contributed to displacing the foreign trade towards other areas. The change in the economic policies was successful in the sense that it gave rise to new conditions for domestic production within the textile sector and forced Stockholm's importers to adapt their foreign trade.
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- Hallén, Per, 1969, et al.
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Gateways and shipping during the early modern times - The Gothenburg example 1720-1804
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Ingår i: Paper for the Ninth European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC): session: Commodity Chains in the First Period of Globalization in Glasgow 11–14 April, 2012..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the 2010 Journal of Transport Geography Notteboom presented how the structure of Europe's container ports has been during 1985-2005. An economic historian who has studied trade during the early modern times immediately recognises the overview. There are striking resemblances between the gateways and multi-gateways port regions that Notteboom works with and with trade during the early modern times. The trade routes and transport systems built up during the age of sail ships have, in large part, the same importance today. This clearly shows that research in early modern trade and shipping has an important role to play when it comes to understanding modern infrastructure. In our paper, we will work with the shipping and trade through the gateway city of Gothenburg during chosen years between 1720 and 1804. The city's location between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea places it in the middle of one of the central regions in the world's economic development during the first period of globalisation. It was in this region that the superpowers of the time got much of the raw materials they needed. To try to understand the shape of shipping and trade in this region is therefore vital to understanding global developments. The source material is made up by custom records from Gothenburg harbour. These will be used to track ship movements to and from Gothenburg to determine the city's place in a larger system of gateways, primarily when it comes to the textiles and coal groups of goods, as well as products related to the substantial herring fishing industry. The theoretical starting point for the study is the extensive structure of theories that have been developed around gateways. Different opportunities to use the custom records in an analysis of shipping structure will be discussed. Which part of the information in the source material is suitable to use (goods, skipper, destinations)? How can one, in the best possible way, make the results comparable to other studies? This is a few of the questions that will be discussed in our methods section. The main point of this paper will be the analysis of the gateway system as seen from the Gothenburg horizon.
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