13 juillet 2016
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
Nils Bennemann, « Port, city and hinterland: on the effects of the Mainz Convention (1831) on the Rhine free ports », Presses universitaires du Septentrion, ID : 10.4000/books.septentrion.8106
1. Introduction The great upheaval brought upon Europe at the time of the Revolutionary Wars did not pass the port towns along the Rhine by: during the negotiations on the free navigation of the Rhine at the Congress of Vienna it was at least resolved to abolish the staple rights for Cologne and Mainz, thus signalling the loss of a major trade privilege, although Cologne’s staple rights remained in force as a means of leverage against the Netherlands in negotiating the Rhine navigation regula...