Profit and neutrality: the case of Ostend, 1781-1783
Parmentier, J. (1997). Profit and neutrality: the case of Ostend, 1781-1783, in: Starkey, D.J. et al.Pirates and privateers: New perspectives on the War on Trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Exeter Maritime Studies, : pp. 206-226
In: Starkey, D.J.; van Eyck van Heslinga, E.S.; de Moore, J.A. (Ed.) (1997). Pirates and privateers: New perspectives on the War on Trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Exeter Maritime Studies. University of Exeter Press: Exeter. ISBN 0-85989-481-9. xii, 268 pp., more
In: Exeter Maritime Studies. Exeter University Publications: Exeter. ISSN 0959-6313, more
This chapter deals with the neutral status of the Port of Ostend during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780-3) and more specifically with the use and abuse of the neutral imperial flag in international trade and shipping. Then it discusses the economic benefits this situation brought to Flanders and Brabant. There will also be an attempt to assess whether this ‘economic boom’ was essentially artificial, due solely to the participation of foreign merchant houses.
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