The Early Modern Atlantic Economy

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.