“In the Eye of the Storm: The Influence of Maritime and Trade Networks on the Development of Ostend and Vice Versa during the Eighteenth Century”

2018 ◽  
pp. 67-80
Author(s):  
Jan Parmentier
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Trade Networks

In the Eye of the Storm: The Influence of Maritime and Trade Networks on the Development of Ostend and Vice Versa during the Eighteenth Century

2008 ◽  
pp. 67-80
Author(s):  
Jan Parmentier
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Trade Networks ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Firm Owners

This chapter explores the development of trade opportunities in the port of Ostend during the Eighteenth century, particularly the circular manner in which trade helped the port develop, which in turn brought in more people and further trade opportunities. It introduces Ostend as a relatively quiet port which began to develop once the Bruges-Ostend Canal opened in 1623 and facilitated the coast to inland trade. It analyses the privateering business in Ostend; the presence of Irish merchants and privateers on the Flemish coast; the impact of the Austrian Empire’s dominance of Ostend; the impact of war; and the mercantile careers of firm-owners Thomas Ray, Andreas Jacobus Flandrin, George Gregorie and Franꞔois Benquet. The conclusion states that the tumultuous political and economic factors ensconcing the port of Ostend offered significant trade opportunities, provided the merchants were versatile, specialist, and able to integrate into the community.

Náápi’s Place

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-36
Author(s):  
Ryan Hall
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Trade Networks ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Hunting And Gathering ◽  
Ancestral Spirit ◽  
The Creation

This chapter provides an overview of Blackfoot origins and life on the northwest plains prior to the eighteenth century. Blackfoot people credit the ancestral spirit Náápi, or Old Man, with the creation of the northwest plains landscape, where they have lived for millennia at least. The Blackfoot developed durable religious traditions, hunting and gathering practices, and diplomatic connections that long sustained their way of life. Beginning in the 1720s, the arrival of horses and European metal goods through trade networks of Indigenous “middlemen” disrupted their traditional practices but also provided new opportunities that many Blackfoot people embraced. The concurrent arrival of horses and metal goods also led to increased conflict and warfare between Indigenous people in the region.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
James Livesey
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Transport Costs ◽  
Trade Networks ◽  
Commercial Society ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Public Credit ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter talks about the elements of a new “thin” culture that was created in the European provinces in the eighteenth century. The capacity to manage change depended on the capacity for innovation, for reorientation to new values and ideas. It focuses on innovation particularly on the way new ideas created new kinds of cultural capacity. Global transformation at the beginning of the late eighteenth century was breath-taking in its scope. Growth rates in countries around the Atlantic began to rise and compound themselves annually as prices of a set of basic commodities became integrated across and between continents. Growth in trade networks was paralleled by the extension of public credit networks that stretched out to old empires and newly independent ex-colonies alike, imposing new disciplines and transforming politics. As new technologies lowered transport costs, they made possible exchanges on a new scale and intensity. The chapter also provides evidence that the diffusion of a profusion of manufactured objects and new experiences altered psychological character and the relationship of the species to the rest of nature. Commercial society promised, or threatened, to alter everything, even the foundations of human personality.

scholarly journals The Makassar Malays: Adaptation and Identity, c. 1660-1790

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Trade Networks ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
Social Alliances ◽  
Ethnic Classification

Extensive trade networks and Islam shaped Malay identity. The Dutch conquest of Makassar (1666-69) compelled the Malays there to redefine themselves, mastering new trade routes, political arenas and social alliances. During the eighteenth century they both evaded and exploited ethnic classification, as their enforced focus on regional commerce and integration into port society encouraged localisation.

TRADE CENTRES (MAIMAICHENG) IN MONGOLIA, AND THEIR FUNCTION IN SINO–RUSSIAN TRADE NETWORKS

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muping Bao
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Trade Networks ◽  
New Towns ◽  
Architectural Styles ◽  
Northern Chinese ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Religious Elements

The development of transit trade between China and Russia after the eighteenth century led to the growth of prosperous Chinatowns in Mongolia. These maimaicheng (lit. “trade towns”) along a Chinese merchant network that reached Siberia and Turkestan displayed distinctive urban spaces, where a multicultural mixture of people – Chinese, Mongolian, Tibetan and Hui Moslem – created new architectural styles and produced unique streetscapes. Unlike urban formations before the eighteenth century, these new towns absorbed nomadic and religious elements into their residential and secular spaces. This did not however imply assimilation. The landscape of northern Chinese towns clearly shows how different cultures were able to preserve their original styles and simultaneously adapt themselves to coexist with others.

The Spanish Basque Country in Global Trade Networks in the Eighteenth Century

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Álvaro Aragón Ruano ◽  
Alberto Angulo Morales
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
Trade Networks
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