Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic World

ISBN-13: 9780415757218 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 284 str.

John McCusker

Opis

Written by one of the leading authorities on trade and finance in the early modern Atlantic world, these fourteen essays, revised and integrated for this volume, share as their common theme the development of the Atlantic economy, especially British America and the Caribbean. Topics treated range from early attempts in medieval England to measure the carrying capacity of ships, through the advent in Renaissance Italy and England of business newspapers that reported on the traffic of ships, cargoes and market prices, to the state of the economy of France over the two hundred years before the French Revolution and of the British West Indies between 1760 and 1790. Included is the story of Thomas Irving who challenged and thwarted the likes of John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

Spis treści

Figures. Tables. Abbreviations. Introduction 1. Guides to Primary Sources for the History of Early British America 2. The Wine Price and Medieval Mercantile Shipping 3. The Tonnage of Ships Engaged in British Colonial Trade during the Eighteenth Century 4. Weights and Measures in the Colonial Sugar Trade: The Gallon and the Pound and Their International Equivalents 5. The Rate of Exchange on Amsterdam in London, 1590-1660 6. The Italian Business Press in Early Modern Europe 7. The Business Press in England before 1775

O autorze

John McCusker