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Central Europe and the Portuguese, Spanish and French Atlantic, Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 June 2018

Torsten dos Santos Arnold
Torsten dos Santos Arnold*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Große Scharrnstraße 59, 15230 Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. Email: arnold.torsten@gmail.com
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Abstract

Applying a comparative and cross-national approach, this article is based on case studies of four representative European Atlantic port cities, namely Nantes, Bordeaux, Lisbon and Cádiz, and their socio-economic relations with Hamburg, one of Central Europe’s most important marketplaces. Based on quantitative data of commodity flows towards and from the Atlantic basin, it also analyses the role of German and German-speaking merchant communities that were established in these metropolitan port cities. The article will show how these foreigners circumvented the respective monopolies that excluded them from direct trade with French, Portuguese and Spanish colonies. These monopolies crumbled only during the era of the Atlantic Revolutions and the disintegration of the respective empires.

Type
Focus: Central Europe and Colonialism
Information
European Review , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , July 2018 , pp. 421 - 429
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© Academia Europaea 2018 

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