The Hansa Towns

The Hansa Towns
Author: Helen Zimmern
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2022-05-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The Hansa Towns is a history book by Helen Zimmern. It delves into the working of The Hanseatic League, a medieval mercantile and defensive coalition of merchant societies, and market towns in central and northern Europe.

The German Hansa

The German Hansa
Author: Philippe Dollinger
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 534
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415190732

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Hanseatic League

The Hanseatic League
Author: Helen Zimmern
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2017-04-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781545593882

There is scarcely a more remarkable chapter in history than that which deals with the trading alliance or association known as the Hanseatic League. The League has long since passed away, having served its time and fulfilled its purpose. The needs and circumstances of mankind have changed, and new methods and new instruments have been devised for carrying on the commerce of the world. Yet, if the League has disappeared, the beneficial results of its action survive to Europe, though they have become so completely a part of our daily life that we accept them as matters of course, and do not stop to inquire into their origin. To us moderns it seems but natural that there should be security of intercourse between civilized nations, that highways should be free from robbers, and the ocean from pirates. The mere notion of a different state of things appears strange to us, and yet things were very different not so many hundred years ago.

The Hanse in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

The Hanse in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Author: Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2012-12-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004212523

The Hanse in Medieval and Early Modern Europe discusses new research on this unique organization of towns and traders, and places the findings in the broader context of European economic, legal and social history.

Forces of the Hanseatic League

Forces of the Hanseatic League
Author: David Nicolle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2014-04-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1782007814

The Hanseatic League was a commercial and defensive federation of merchant guilds based in harbour towns along the North Sea and Baltic coasts of what are now Germany and her neighbours, which eventually dominated maritime trade in Northern Europe and spread its influence much further afield. The League was formed to protect the economic and political interests of member cities throughout a vast and complex trading network. The League continued to operate well into the 17th century, but its golden age was between c.1200 and c.1500; thereafter it failed to take full advantage of the wave of maritime exploration to the west, south and east of Europe. During its 300 years of dominance the League's large ships – called 'cogs' – were at the forefront of maritime technology, were early users of cannon, and were manned by strong fighting crews to defend them from pirates in both open-sea and river warfare. The home cities raised their own armies for mutual defence, and their riches both allowed them, and required them, to invest in fortifications and gunpowder weapons, since as very attractive targets they were subjected to sieges at various times.

The Hansa Towns

The Hansa Towns
Author: Helen Zimmern
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2017-10-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781978091252

A book well-written by Helen Zimmern on the terrible history of power, competition and maturation of the commerce institutions in the Baltic that played a role as important as the Mediterranean in the development of international trade and institutions.There is scarcely a more remarkable chapter in history than that which deals with the trading alliance or association known as the Hanseatic League. The League has long since passed away, having served its time and fulfilled its purpose. The needs and circumstances of mankind have changed, and new methods and new instruments have been devised for carrying on the commerce of the world. Yet, if the League has disappeared, the beneficial results of its action survive to Europe, though they have become so completely a part of our daily life that we accept them as matters of course, and do not stop to inquire into their origin.