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| Hammer, P.. |
| The German word ‘Kobold’ is the term for gnomes and goblins. It appeared for the first time in connection with minerals in Agricola’s Bermannus (1530). The first practical use was in the form of zaffer or cobalt-blue. Zaffer will not melt alone, but accompanied by vitreous substances it melts into an azure colour and so used as ‘Smalte’ for glazed earthenware, for glass and china. Since 1470 the Saxony ore mountains, especially the Schneeberg district, was the most important supplier of cobalt ores. Main products of the ‘Blaufarbenwerke’ were zaffers (Safflor) cobaltoxides of different colours and smalte (Smalte) a mixture of cobaltoxides with quartz. The Electoral-Saxon blue colour was greatly appreciated. The Dutch managed in their country eight... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Cobalt; Saxony; Blue-colour industry; 35.45. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/215456 |
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| Ploeckl, Florian. |
| Changes in trade institutions, such as the abolishment of tariff barriers, have a potentially strong impact on economic development. The Zollverein, the 1834 customs union between German states, erased borders in much of central Europe. This paper investigates the Zollverein's economic impact through a study of urban population and its growth in the German state of Saxony. A model of the effect of market access on urban growth is combined with an extensive data set on town populations in Saxony and its neighbors as well as an improved distance measure based on GIS techniques, which take into account elevation patterns, roads, and rivers. The results show that Zollverein membership led to significantly higher growth for towns close to the border with... |
| Tipo: Working Paper |
Palavras-chave: F15; N93; R12; International Relations/Trade; Zollverein; Saxony; Customs Union; Market Access; Economic Geography; GIS; Distance measurement. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/229132 |
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