Excerpt from Chronicles of Three Free Cities: Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck There appears' to be a dearth of books in English con cerning the Free Cities of Northern Germany, although they have had much to do with the history, and more especially with the commercial history, of England and America. At the present time, when so much is said about the iniquity of trusts and trade gambling, puts and calls, selling for future delivery, strikes, boycotts and corners, it may be instructive to read how the Germans in the Middle Ages dealt with such things, for they had them all, including peaceful picketing and the minimum wage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.