TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCusker, John J.,
AU  - Morgan, Kenneth.,
AU  - Green Carr, Lois.
AU  - Crouzet, François.
AU  - Cullen, Louis M.
AU  - Dunn, Richard S.
AU  - Engerman, Stanley L.
AU  - Hancock, David.
AU  - Mathias, Peter.
AU  - Menard, Russell R.
AU  - O´Brien, Patrick K.
AU  - Roseveare, Henry.
AU  - Shammas, Carole.
TI  - The early modern Atlantic economy
SN  - 052178249X
AV  - HF 3093 .E37 2000 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Comercio
KW  - Colonias
KW  - Historia
KW  - Reino Unido
KW  - Américas
KW  - Francia
N1  - 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
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