The early modern Atlantic economy / edited by John J. McCusker and Kenneth Morgan.

List of figures, vii -- List of tables, viii -- List of abbreviations, x -- List of contributors, xiii -- Introduction / John J. McCusker and Kenneth Morgan, 1 -- Part I. The role of merchants and their connections, 15 -- 1. Risk, credit and kinship in early modern enterprise / Peter Mathias, 15 -- 2. Business networks in the British export trade to North America, 1750-1800 / Kenneth Morgan, 36 -- Part II. The development of trades, 65 -- 3. Property versus commerce in the mid-eighteenth-century port of London / Henry Roseveare, 65 -- 4. Irish businessman and French courtier: the career of Thomas Sutton, comte de Clonard, c. 1722-1782 / Louis M. Cullen, 86 -- 5. A revolution in the trade: wine distribution and the development of the infrastructure of the Atlantic market economy, 1703-1807 / David Hancock, 105 -- 6. Law, credit, the supply of labour, and the organization of sugar production in the colonial Greater Caribbean: a comparison of Brazil and Barbados in the seventeenth century / Russell R. Menard, 154 -- 7. The revolutionary impact of European demand for tropical goods / Carole Shammas, 163 -- 8. The business of distilling in the Old World and the New World during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the rise of a new enterprise and its connection with colonial America / John J. McCusker, 186 -- Part III. Imperial economies, 227 -- 9. France, Britain and the economic growth of colonial North America / Stanley L. Engerman, 227 -- 10. Merchants and bankers as patriots or speculators? Foreign commerce and monetary policy in wartime, 1793-1815 / Patrick K. O' Brien, 250 -- 11. America and the crisis of the British imperial economy, 1803-1807 / Francois Crouzet, 278 -- Part IV. Colonial working societies, 319 -- 12. Emigration and the standard of living: the eighteenth-century Chesapeake / Lois Green Carr, 319 -- 13. After tobacco: the slave labour pattern on a large Chesapeake grain-and-livestock plantation in the early nineteenth century / Richard S. Dunn, 344 -- Index, 364.