Research on international exchange rates and cashless payments, long a key topic in the field of monetary and currency history, has been progressively aided by works aiming to document money and excha
For the first time a workshop of preindustrial times took place in Goteborg in 2012. The Preindustrial Flows and Contacts-theme gathered researchers from Germany, Italy, Russia, Sweden and the Netherl
Interlopers played a significant role in Early Modern world trade. The eighteenth century was a case in point; re-exports of colonial goods such as tobacco, sugar, tea and coffee increased dramaticall