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050 _aHF 3093 .E37 2000
245 _aThe early modern Atlantic economy /
_cedited by John J. McCusker and Kenneth Morgan.
260 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2000.
300 _axiii, 369 páginas :
_bilustraciones a blanco y negro ;
_c24 cm.
505 0 0 _aList of figures, vii --
_tList of tables, viii --
_tList of abbreviations, x --
_tList of contributors, xiii --
_tIntroduction /
_rJohn J. McCusker and Kenneth Morgan, 1 --
_tPart I. The role of merchants and their connections, 15 --
_t1. Risk, credit and kinship in early modern enterprise /
_rPeter Mathias, 15 --
_t2. Business networks in the British export trade to North America, 1750-1800 /
_rKenneth Morgan, 36 --
_tPart II. The development of trades, 65 --
_t3. Property versus commerce in the mid-eighteenth-century port of London /
_rHenry Roseveare, 65 --
_t4. Irish businessman and French courtier: the career of Thomas Sutton, comte de Clonard, c. 1722-1782 /
_rLouis M. Cullen, 86 --
_t5. A revolution in the trade: wine distribution and the development of the infrastructure of the Atlantic market economy, 1703-1807 /
_rDavid Hancock, 105 --
_t6. 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 /
_rRussell R. Menard, 154 --
_t7. The revolutionary impact of European demand for tropical goods /
_rCarole Shammas, 163 --
_t8. 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 /
_rJohn J. McCusker, 186 --
_tPart III. Imperial economies, 227 --
_t9. France, Britain and the economic growth of colonial North America /
_rStanley L. Engerman, 227 --
_t10. Merchants and bankers as patriots or speculators? Foreign commerce and monetary policy in wartime, 1793-1815 /
_rPatrick K. O' Brien, 250 --
_t11. America and the crisis of the British imperial economy, 1803-1807 /
_rFrancois Crouzet, 278 --
_tPart IV. Colonial working societies, 319 --
_t12. Emigration and the standard of living: the eighteenth-century Chesapeake /
_rLois Green Carr, 319 --
_t13. After tobacco: the slave labour pattern on a large Chesapeake grain-and-livestock plantation in the early nineteenth century /
_rRichard S. Dunn, 344 --
_tIndex, 364.
650 1 4 _aComercio.
650 2 4 _aColonias.
650 2 4 _aHistoria.
651 _aReino Unido.
651 4 _aAméricas.
651 4 _aFrancia.
700 _aMcCusker, John J.,
_eedited.
700 _aMorgan, Kenneth.,
_eedited.
700 _aGreen Carr, Lois.
700 _aCrouzet, François.
700 _aCullen, Louis M.
700 _aDunn, Richard S.
700 _aEngerman, Stanley L.
700 _aHancock, David.
700 _aMathias, Peter.
700 _aMenard, Russell R.
700 _aO´Brien, Patrick K.
700 _aRoseveare, Henry.
700 _aShammas, Carole.
942 _cCG
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