Sailing to European entrepôts: Romanian farming and the Antwerp international grain market (1881–1914)
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https://doi.org/10.26806/hisape.n52.2Keywords:
diplomacy, maritime networks, transport infrastructure, maritime tradeAbstract
The paper contributes to the research on the expansion of the grain trade in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, by looking at the contribution of Eastern Europe, more specifically, Romania. This would be a welcome addition, since existing studies often emphasise the contribution of Northern American grain, while that of Eastern Europe was also impressive. At the end of the nineteenth century, a connection was created between the ports of the Lower Danube and the entrepôt in Antwerp, a connection that was indispensable for the two ends of the network but also for the business environment. The paper has an original approach, since the author does not (only) use published quantitative sources but combines diplomatic archival material from both Belgium and Romania.
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