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Article: Swedish variations on Dutch commercial institutions, 1605-1655.
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- Scandinavian Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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POLITICAL HISTORIANS know Sweden's seventeenth century as the Great Power Period or Stormaktstid; economic historians know it as a period when Sweden's contact with the rest of the European continent increased, as suggested by the title of the second part of Eli Heckscher's classic economic history of Sweden, The Economy Under International Influence, 1600-1720. The exchanges took many different forms, from an expansion of the circulation of goods and coin to the immigration of workers bringing new skills and capital with significant effects upon Sweden's society and economy (see Floren and Ternhag; Sandstrom).
Exchange also included intellectual and cultural ...