Scientific research in the context of the investigation into the trade networks in Antwerp.

This project focuses on the internatiional trade networks in Antwerp during the first half of the nineteenth century. It highlights the role of merchants and businessmen in the maritime trade business in Antwerp and the ways in which they reconnected Antwerp to the world after the reopening of the river Scheldt in 1795. This project emphasizes the ways in which merchants and businessmen from abroad and from Antwerp used,, expanded and maintained their international relations and networks by a close study of business correspondance in different port cities.

Keywords:CITY HISTORY, TRADE ECONOMY, NETWORKS

Disciplines:Economic history, History