Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Cracow in context; 2. Source materials and published literature; 3. Cracow's early development; 4. Political situation of Cracow, 1257–1500; 5. European trade through Cracow; 6. Political situation of Cracow, 1500–1795; 7. The commerce of Cracow, 1500–1795; 8. Cracow: a final appraisal; Polish résumé; Appendix; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

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This 1994 study uses the experience of Cracow to illuminate general patterns of trade and urban growth in central and eastern Europe.

Reviews

"...not simply one more history of a town but a geographical study of its commerce [which] has methodological pioneering ambitions." Journal of Economic History "F.W. Carter has given medievalists a model study of one town's commercial connections and thus a challenge, too. Can specialists in western or Mediterranean Europe construct comparable treatments of medieval urban centers there?" Richard Hoffmann, Speculum- A Journal of Medieval Studies "Because no analagous systematic synthesis of materials exists for any Polish city, this work will undoubtedly be of great service to anyone intersted in the economic history of Poland. It is clearly the product of herculean labors and for this the author deserves great praise." Gershon Hundert, American Historical Review