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The Flaxseed Trade Between Courland and Brittany in the Eighteenth Century

In: The Urban Logistic Network

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  • Pierrick Pourchasse

    (University of Bretagne Occidentale)

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The trade of flaxseed between Courland and Brittany linked two urban networks and two market organisations, one providing the products from Northern Europe, the other receiving the goods with the small port of Roscoff as the main gateway. These two networks were interconnected by a third player, the Hanseatic port of Lübeck, “middleman organizer,” which provided transport between the Baltic and Brittany and got large profits from its intermediary operations. The interest of this research is to explain how this third participant dealt at the same time with the hinterland by monopolising the export of the product, by shipping goods through its own commercial fleet and by controlling the distribution presented as essential for the peasants of the foreland while practising very high prices.

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  • Pierrick Pourchasse, 2019. "The Flaxseed Trade Between Courland and Brittany in the Eighteenth Century," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Giovanni Favero & Michael-W. Serruys & Miki Sugiura (ed.), The Urban Logistic Network, chapter 0, pages 193-207, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-030-27599-0_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-27599-0_10
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