Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/181389 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Global Economic History Series No. 8
Publisher: 
Brill, Leiden
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Holland
Middle Ages
Economic history
Institutions
Markets
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ISBN: 
978-90-04-20149-1
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Document Type: 
Book
Document Version: 
Published Version
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