The early modern Atlantic economy /
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Cambridge, U.K. :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Edição: | 1st ed. |
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Sumário:
- Introduction John J. McCusker and Kenneth Morgan
- Part I. The Role of Merchants and their Connections: 1. Risk, credit and kinship in early modern enterprise Peter Mathias ; 2. Business networks in the British export trade to North America, 1750-1800 Kenneth Morgan
- Part II. The Development of Trades: 3. Property versus commerce in the mid-eighteenth century port of London Henry Roseveare ; 4. Irish businessman and French courtier: the career of Thomas Sutton, Comte de Clonard, c. 1722-1782 L. M. Cullen ; 5. 'A revolution in the trade': wine distribution and the development of the infrastructure of the Atlantic market economy, 1703-1807 David Hancock ; 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 ; 7. The revolutionary impact of European demand for tropical goods Carole Shammas ; 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
- Part III. Imperial Economies: 9. France, Britain, and the economic growth of colonial North America Stanley L. Engerman ; 10. Merchants and bankers as patriots or speculators? Foreign commerce and monetary policy in wartime, 1793-1815 Patrick K. O'Brien ; 11. America and the crisis of the British imperial economy, 1803-1807 François Crouzet
- Part IV. Colonial Working Societies: 12. Emigration and the standard of living: the eighteenth-century Chesapeake Lois Green Carr ; 13. After tobacco: the slave labour pattern on a large Chesapeake grain-and-livestock plantation in the early nineteenth century Richard S. Dunn.