The Sound Toll at Elsinore : politics, shipping and the collection of duties 1429-1857 /

The Sound Toll at Elsinore : politics, shipping and the collection of duties 1429-1857 /

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Imprint:	Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press ; The Danish Society for Customs and Tax History, [2017] ©2017
Description:	623 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, portraits (chiefly color), facsimiles ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Sound duties -- History. Harbors -- Denmark -- Helsingør -- History. Diplomatic relations. Harbors. Sound duties. Denmark -- Foreign relations -- History. Sound, The (Denmark and Sweden) Denmark -- Helsingør. Atlantic Ocean -- Sound, The (Denmark and Sweden) Denmark. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11871736

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Other authors / contributors:	Degn, Ole, editor.
ISBN:	9788763544702 8763544709
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-590) and indexes.
Summary:	"The articles in this book address a variety of important topics related to the Sound Toll, ranging from its introduction and first troubled years in the late Middle Ages, via its administration and custom houses throughout the centuries, to its revenues and accounts from its inception until its demise. Along the way, the articles tell of Mother Sigbrit challenging the seafaring nations around 1520; of wars and international entanglements in the sixteenth century; of the fight for access to the Baltic export so vital to the growing populations of Western Europe; of how Christian IV severely raised the toll rates, with disastrous consequences; of the Swedish attack that led to the Torstenson War of 1643-45; of the loss of Halland and eventually, in 1658-60, also of Scania and Blekinge; and of the brazen smuggling carried out by English skippers in the 1700s."

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