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Institutions and European Trade: Merchant Guilds, 1000–1800

Sheilagh Ogilvie · Cambridge University Press · 2011

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Author
Sheilagh Ogilvie
Identifier
DOI 10.1017/CBO9780511974410
Accessed
2026-09-01

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DisputedPrivileged merchant associations such as the Hanseatic merchant communities served their members' and rulers' distributional interests at the expense of outsiders, rather than surviving because they were efficient institutions for trade.