History
The Tobacco nation: English tobacco dealers and pipe-makers in Rotterdam, 1620-1650
Document Type
Book Chapter
Abstract
Jan de Vries and fellow author Ad van der Woude note in The First Modern Economy that little is known about the production of clay pipes, “perhaps because it involved a cheap, simple article of mass consumption. The clay pipe was the quintessential throwaway product—the Bic lighter of the seventeenth and eighteenth century.” This paper
intends to shed some new light on pipe-making and tobacco dealing in the Dutch Republic in the first half of the seventeenth century, especially in Rotterdam. Archival sources will be used to show the extent
to which English natives dominated both sectors. At the same time, as we will see, tobacco produced in the English colonies, in particular the Chesapeake, was often carried to Europe not by English merchants but Dutchmen.
Publication Title
The Birth of Modern Europe Culture and Economy, 1400-1800. Essays in Honor of Jan de Vries
Publication Date
2010
Volume
2
First Page
17
Last Page
34
ISSN
1877-3206
ISBN
9789004189348
DOI
10.1163/ej.9789004189348.i-259.8
Keywords
Dutch Republic, tobacco, Rotterdam
Repository Citation
Klooster, Wim, "The Tobacco nation: English tobacco dealers and pipe-makers in Rotterdam, 1620-1650" (2010). History. 57.
https://commons.clarku.edu/historyfac/57
