Appendix to:
George M. Welling
The Prize of Neutrality
On this page you will find links to all the appendices
(and a little extra) belonging to my dissertation The Prize of
Neutrality. Trade relations between Amsterdam and North America 1771-1817.
A study in computational history. (Hilversum 1998).The book can be ordered from:
Amsterdams Historische ReeksThe price is 50 guilders and shipping-costs.
p/a Mw. L. Hesp
Historisch Seminarium
University of Amsterdam
Spuistraat 134
1012 VB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
List of errata in the book.
Updates
- June 4, 2002
- Since the publication of the book, further research and remarks from other scholars have caused some corrections in the database. Since maintaining the database in various formats is rather cumbersome, I have decided to restrict myself to the MS-Access database (Version 2000). I will try to update the database as more comments come in or when other errors will be found. This may cause slight differences between the numbers published in my book and the results from new calculations. However, though minor differences with the printed results will occur, the overall picture will remain the same. Within a short time the datasets in .DBF format will be removed.
- June 19, 2002
- Revision of the breakdown in products published
Most of the data sets were in DBF-format: in time I will make the same
data sets available in MS-Access 2000 format only, but the DBF-format is easily
imported into most other systems.
Some of the data sets are
transcriptions of older printed material: they are presented here to make
life a bit easier for other researchers who would like to work with this
material.
Feel free to use the data sets as long as you supply the
correct references.
In all the data from the Paalgeld portbooks a division is made
between the data concerning the European trade and the West indian trade.
Since no cargo-descriptions are available for the West indian trade, all
percentages for the various goods have been computed from the total
European trade.
In HTML-tables
Some might take quite some time to load.- Imports to
Amsterdam 1742, 1771 - 1787. breakdown in Products.
Source :
Portbooks of the Levy of the Paalgeld
Goods in Alphabetical order. With each good the measure in which this was counted is given. The amounts have been calculated by dividing the total receits of the paalgeld for that product by the levy on the standard amount. - Imports to
Amsterdam 1742, 1771 - 1787. Regional breakdown: estimated total
value of the trade, total Paalgeld levy, and number of ships.
Under revision - Import to
Amsterdam 1742, 1771 - 1787. Product per region.
Under revision - Total number of ships, percentage of total number of ships, estimated cargo value, percentage of total estimated cargo value, average estimated estimated cargo value per ship, per year, per region.
Source : Portbooks of the Levy of the Paalgeld (West Indies Included).
New: there may be small differences with results published earlier, because of corrections of some miss-codings
Code-books
The updated codebooks can be found as tables in the MS-Access database
New Data-sets in DBF-format
- Monthly receits of the Paalgeld in Guilders and Percentages according to the Paalgeld Portbooks 1742, 1771-1815: DBF- format 23 Kb
- Shiptidings from the Amsterdamsche Courant 1778 in DBF format : 532 Kb
- Monsterrollen en Chertepartijen 1778 in DBF format : 486 kb with a Memo-file : 305 Kb and Planned Voyages and a memo-file
New data sets in MS-Access format
- The
complete paalgeld database (revision 1, june 2002) (English version) with all necessary codebooks, including
the European and West-Indian data, as well as the monthly
receits.
The size of this data set is about 17 Meg, so it will take quite some time to load: but it is worthwhile. - Bills of Lading and Muster-roles 1778
- Data from L. Van Nierop (1915,1917,1924)
- Data from F.J.B. d'Alphonse (1900)
- Data from W.F.H.Oldewelt (1953)
Data in spreadsheet-form
- Receits of the Paalgeld, Convoyen and Licenten and the Veilgeld/Lastgeld in Quatro-format
- Receits of the Paalgeld, Convoyen and Licenten and the Veilgeld/Lastgeld in MS Excel-format
Data from other publications converted to machine readable form
In HTML-format
- Imports and exports of the Kingdom of Holland (before 1806: the Batavian Republic) [249 Kb] from: F.J.B. d'Alphonse, Appercu sur la Hollande
- Shipping to and from the Netherlands. source: L. v. Nierop : Amsterdam's scheepvaart in den Franschen tijd in : Jaarboek Amstellodamum 21 (1924) p.119-139 [113 Kb]
In DBF-Format
- Imports and exports of the Kingdom of Holland (before 1806: the Batavian Republic) [91 Kb] from: F.J.B. d'Alphonse, Appercu su la Hollande
- Shipping to and from the Netherlands. source: L. v. Nierop : Amsterdam's scheepvaart in den Franschen tijd in : Jaarboek Amstellodamum 21 (1924) p.119-139 [31 Kb]
- Imports to the Netherlands 1753, 1789-1793, 1796-1799: Nierop (1915-1917) [650 Kb]
- Exports from the Netherlands 1753, 1789-1793, 1796-1799: Nierop (1915-1917) [373 Kb]
- Receits Convoyen and Licenten 1698-1795: De Vries (1959) [14 Kb]
- Ships coming to the Netherlands according to W.F.H.Oldewelt (1953) [134 Kb]
- Ships coming to the Netherlands according to F.Snapper (1979) [95 Kb]
- Imports to and Exports from the Netherlands 1774 according to N.W. Posthumus [16 Kb]
The "Observantie van de Heffing van 't Paal-Gelt"
- Images of the pages
- Transscription in HTML-format
- Transscription in DBF-format - 13 Kb
- Transscription in Access- format - 100 Kb