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“What cannot be helped must be indured”: Coping with Obstacles to Business During the Anglo-Dutch Wars, 1652–1674
Enterprise & Society ( IF 0.7 ) Pub Date : 2021-02-23 , DOI: 10.1017/eso.2021.1
SIOBHAN TALBOTT

By nature, wars appear hostile to commerce, bringing disruption to international relations and to everyday life. By focusing on the individuals involved in continuing commerce, however, an increasing body of scholarship has shown that merchants in a number of contexts continued to operate successfully during periods of war. This article builds on these recent methodological shifts in business history, applying them to the three Anglo-Dutch wars of the seventeenth century. Although these conflicts have been described as being harmful to commerce, there has been no focus hitherto on merchants’ experiences of or responses to these wars. This article addresses this problem and, in so doing, proposes a different way of analyzing and thus characterizing the relationship between the Anglo-Dutch Wars and business. Through examining the surviving correspondence of merchants operating during these wars, I investigate the various methods used—both successfully and unsuccessfully—to navigate obstacles to business during these conflicts. The value of considering this activity in broader British and European contexts is explored, and the range of concerns exhibited by merchants during these periods of conflict is analyzed, showing that war was not paramount among their concerns, despite the political context. Throughout, I show that although all three Anglo-Dutch Wars had an impact on commerce, this was not necessarily negative, and that the most enterprising and proactive merchants benefited from commercial opportunities created by the conflicts.



中文翻译:

“必须束手无策”:应对英荷战争期间的商业障碍,1652-1674年

从本质上讲,战争似乎对商业充满敌意,给国际关系和日常生活带来了破坏。然而,通过关注于从事持续商业活动的个人,越来越多的学者表明,在许多情况下,商人在战争期间继续成功地运作。本文基于商业历史上这些最近的方法论转变,并将其应用于十七世纪的三场英荷战争。尽管这些冲突被描述为对商业有害,但迄今为止,还没有集中于商人对这些战争的经验或对这些战争的反应。本文解决了这个问题,并提出了一种不同的分析方式,从而表征了英荷战争与商业之间的关系。通过研究在这些战争中运作的商人的残存往来信件,我研究了成功使用和失败使用的各种方法,以解决这些冲突期间的业务障碍。探索了在更广泛的英国和欧洲范围内考虑这一活动的价值,并分析了在这些冲突时期商人所表现出的关注范围,表明尽管政治背景,战争在他们的关注中并不是最重要的。贯穿整个过程,我表明,尽管三场英荷战争都对商业产生了影响,但这并不一定是消极的,最进取和积极进取的商人从冲突创造的商业机会中受益。我研究了成功使用和失败使用的各种方法,以解决这些冲突期间的业务障碍。探索了在更广泛的英国和欧洲范围内考虑这一活动的价值,并分析了在这些冲突时期商人所表现出的关注范围,表明尽管政治背景,战争在他们的关注中并不是最重要的。贯穿整个过程,我表明,尽管三场英荷战争都对商业产生了影响,但这并不一定是消极的,最进取和积极进取的商人从冲突创造的商业机会中受益。我研究了成功使用和失败使用的各种方法,以解决这些冲突期间的业务障碍。探索了在更广泛的英国和欧洲范围内考虑这一活动的价值,并分析了在这些冲突时期商人所表现出的关注范围,表明尽管政治背景,战争在他们的关注中并不是最重要的。贯穿整个过程,我表明,尽管三场英荷战争都对商业产生了影响,但这并不一定是消极的,最进取和积极进取的商人从冲突创造的商业机会中受益。并分析了商人在冲突期间表现出的关注范围,表明尽管政治背景,战争在他们的关注中并不是最重要的。贯穿整个过程,我表明,尽管三场英荷战争都对商业产生了影响,但这并不一定是消极的,最进取和积极进取的商人从冲突创造的商业机会中受益。并分析了商人在冲突期间表现出的关注范围,表明尽管政治背景,战争在他们的关注中并不是最重要的。贯穿整个过程,我表明,尽管三场英荷战争都对商业产生了影响,但这并不一定是消极的,最进取和积极进取的商人从冲突创造的商业机会中受益。

更新日期:2021-02-23
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