Shipping, maritime trade, and the economic development of colonial North America /
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Cambridge, England :
Cambridge University Press,
1972.
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Sommario:
- Preface and acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Colonial economic development: a suggested framework
- 3. Colonial economic development and trade: an overview
- 4. Colonial trade, distribution costs, and productivity change in shipping
- 5. Sources of productivity change in shipping and distribution
- 6. Overseas commodity trade, 1768-72
- 7. The balance of trade and invisible earnings in overseas trade 1768-72
- 8. The balance of payments, 1768-72
- 9. Reinterpretations of issues in colonial history
- Appendices
- Select bibliography
- Index.