Life at the Frontier of the Sixteenth–Seventeenth-Century World Economy:

In several of the world's regions a ‘general crisis’ seems to have occurred in the first half of the seventeenth century. At that time in each region, political instability and war, population decline and urban stagnation, economic crises marked by falling prices and depleted stocks of precious metals, and dramatic climatic shifts converged. These symptoms have been detected in western Europe, in the Ottoman lands, and even in China and Japan. Their causes have been attributed in part to the effects of the price revolution, partly to climate change, and in part to rising populations which begin to outstrip agricultural production. The latter tendency in particular seems to have caused a fiscal crisis for the absolutist agrarian states characteristic of Eurasia in this period. Other analyses stress the effects of a tightening linkage in the emerging capitalist world economy in which precious metal flows served to mark newly imposed interdependencies.

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How and Why the Dutch East India Company Became Competitive in Intra-Asian Trade in East Asia in the 1630s

Itinerario ◽

10.1017/s0165115300015229 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 41-56 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Paul A. Van Dyke

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Early Modern ◽

East Asia ◽

World Economy ◽

East India Company ◽

Dutch East India Company ◽

Cape Of Good Hope ◽

The World ◽

In The Beginning ◽

Global Operations

Many of the principles we know today about the world economy were first discovered in Early Modern Asia. The Portuguese and the Spanish were the first to extend their sphere of trade to encompass the world. In the beginning of the seventeenth century, the English, Dutch, French, Danes, Swedes and others, all made their way past the Cape of Good Hope seeking their share of the Asian trade. By the middle of the century, one of them became so successful that, aside from being the envy of the others, they set a new standard of efficiency in global operations. It was of course the Dutch.

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THE ROLE OF THE OTTOMANS AND DUTCH IN THE COMMERCIAL INTEGRATION BETWEEN THE LEVANT AND ATLANTIC IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient ◽

10.1163/156852002760247113 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 197-230 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Mehmet Bulut

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Ottoman Empire ◽

Present Article ◽

World Economy ◽

Western Europe ◽

Economic Systems ◽

Economic Relations ◽

The World ◽

World Economic

AbstractThe present paper focuses on the role of the Ottomans and Dutch in the early commercial integration between the Levant and Atlantic in the seventeenth century. As an expanding trading nation in the world economy, the Dutch Republic played an important role in the commercial integration between the provinces of the Ottoman Empire and Western Europe. The growth of Ottoman-Dutch economic relations in the seventeenth century followed the growth of economic relations between the provinces of the Empire and Western Europe.Therefore, the two world economic systems, the Ottoman and Western European economy increasingly opened to each other. Le présent article examine les rôles respectifs des Ottomans et des Néerlandais dans le début de l'intégration commerciale entre le Levant et l'Océan Atlantique au XVIIème siècle. Nation commerciale en expansion dans l'économie mondiale, la République hollandaise a joué un rôle important dans l'intégration commerciale des provinces de l'Empire Ottoman à l'Europe Occidentale dans la même période. La croissance des relations économiques entre le monde ottoman et la Hollande au XVIIème siècle a suivi la progression des échanges entre l'Empire et l'Europe occidentale. En conséquence, les deux systèmes économiques du monde se sont de plus en plus ouverts l'un à l'autre.

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Historiographical Reflections on the Period 1750–1870 in Southeast Asia and Korea

Itinerario ◽

10.1017/s0165115300022324 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 77-88 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anthony Reid

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Southeast Asia ◽

Recent Work ◽

World Economy ◽

Southeast Asian ◽

Eastern Asia ◽

Negative Images

The historiography with which most of us interact outside our own country or area of expertise is predominantly western and primarily in English. Although increasingly diverse in authorship, this historiography continued to build on traditions and sources which were developed in a less universalist age. It is not surprising the find that the period (roughly mid-seventeenth to mid-eighteenth centuries) in which most independent countries of eastern Asia sought to disengage from the European-dominated world economy is poorly understood or appreciated. I am conscious of the danger that my own recent work on the Southeast Asian ‘Age of Commerce’ may unintentionally reinforce negative images of those states which reacted to the traumas of the seventeenth century by decreasing their interaction with European traders.

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