High Germans in the Low Countries : German Merchants and Commerce in Golden Age Antwerp

Intro -- Contents -- List of Maps, Tables, and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Methods and Sources -- Structure of the Book -- PART I: COMMERCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- Chapter Two: The Development of the Antwerp Market before 1500 -- Antwerp's Early Development -- The Antwerp Market and International Trade in the Fifteenth Century -- Antwerp and the Wider World -- Chapter Three: Antwerp's Foreign Merchant Communities -- Economic Functions of Foreign Nations -- Social Functions of Foreign Nations -- Chapter Four: The Germans in Antwerp -- German Immigrants to Antwerp -- North German Merchants -- The Great South German Firms -- Mid-Level German Merchants -- The Small-Scale Merchant -- The Organization of German Merchants -- Germans and Antwerp Society -- Patterns of German Settlement -- PART II: COMMERCIAL NETWORKS -- Chapter Five: Commerce and Urban Networks -- Shifting Patterns of Long-Distance Trade -- Overland Trade Routes and Tolls -- South German Merchants and Seaborne Trade -- Chapter Six: The Infrastructure of Antwerp's German Trade -- Antwerp's Commercial Infrastructure -- The Organization of Overland Transport -- Chapter Seven: Trade Between Antwerp and Germany in the Sixteenth Century -- Imports from South Germany -- Exports to Southern Germany -- North German Trade Relations -- The Hanseatic Trade in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp -- Exports of Northern Germany -- Chapter Eight: German Activities in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century and the Decline of the Antwerp Market -- German Speculative Activities and the Antwerp Financial Markets -- The Decline of the Antwerp Market and the Trade with Germany -- Chapter Nine: The German Contribution -- Appendices -- 1 Money -- 2 Merchants with Exports to Germany over 1000 £ Flemish Groot (1543-1545).