The Merchant Republics analyzes the ways in which three major economic powerhouses - Amsterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg - developed dual identities as \'communities of commerce\' and republics over the course of the long eighteenth century (c.1648-1790)..
The Merchant Republics analyzes the ways in which three major economic powerhouses - Amsterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg - developed dual identities as \'communities of commerce\' and republics over the course of the long eighteenth century (c.1648-1790).