The Forgotten Age of Swedish Shipping: The Eighteenth Century

Müller, Leoš

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“…When comparing our data to these estimates, there is a risk that the transport sector's share of Swedish GDP might be underestimated, as estimates of Swedish foreign trade often has focused on imports and exports (e.g. Edvinsson & Gad, 2018), excluding re-exports, but also as Swedish ships participated in international tramp shipping that do not show up in Swedish trade statistics (Müller, 2012(Müller, , 2018. Figure 5 reports the resulting estimates of the value-added involved in the Swedish trade on East India for the period from 1739 to 1786.…”

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Swedish East India trade in a value-added analysis, c. 1730–1800

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Müller

2020

Scandinavian Economic History Review

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The narrative of the Swedish East India Company (SEIC) is a well-known part of Sweden's eighteenth century history. The company is known as a profitable venture, the only successful chartered company in Sweden, but with a limited impact upon the country's economic development. In this paper, we employ a value-chain analysis to estimate the Swedish East India trade's magnitude in terms of value-added. The results show that the success of the company was not based on monopolised domestic market in Sweden, a typical strategy of big chartered companies. The most valuable line of SEIC's business (Chinese teas) was rather based on re-exports to other countries in Europe. Our quantitative estimates also show that the Swedish East India trade eventually made up a non-negligible share, and in particular a major share of the transport and trade sectors, of the Swedish economy during a long part of the eighteenth century.

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Swedish East India trade in a value-added analysis, c. 1730–1800

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Müller

2020

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“…10 The operation of the Danish merchant fleet in Europe and its Atlantic colonies has generated a number of essays, 11 while Leos Müller has provided perceptive interpretations of the development of Swedish shipping. 12 Southern Europe has furnished the IJMH with numerous works, particularly relating to the shipping interests of Spain and Greece. The operation of the Spanish merchant fleet in European and Atlantic waters has been examined, with insight, by Jesús M. Valdaliso.…”

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Merchant Shipping in the International Journal of Maritime History

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2014

International Journal of Maritime History

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The International Journal of Maritime History (IJMH) has been one of the main vehicles for expanding our knowledge of world shipping. By 'shipping', I mean the merchant shipping industry: the shipping fleets of nations engaged in regional and/or global trade; the sea routes and transport of specific cargoes; the various market sectors, like bulk shipping, liner shipping, coastal shipping; the behaviour of freight rates; the formulation of shipping statistics and tonnage measurement; the structural changes in shipping through major technological changes like the transition from sailing vessels to steamships, and the introduction of container ships; and the shipping, shipbroking and ship agency companies that made shipping work, as well as the entrepreneurial networks they formed. Articles, research notes, forums and bibliographical essays in the IJMH have enriched, expanded and shaped the state of the art in merchant shipping history. The IJMH has disseminated the research findings of established and emerging maritime historians during the last 25 years, and published essays on the character and development of shipping on all seas, oceans and continents from medieval to modern times. What is more, the editors and reviewers of the articles have instilled international, comparative perspectives into this scholarly contribution. In this overview, I will indicate how articles published in the IMJH have analysed various aspects of the shipping industry, which has enhanced our understanding of the process of globalisation and the development of the world economy.Richard Unger, an outstanding historian of medieval and early modern shipping, makes the point that economic growth cannot be discussed meaningfully without analysing shipping. Firstly in an article in the IJMH 1 and, consequently, in a recent groundbreaking, comprehensive volume, he proposes that shipping generated economic growth in early modern

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