Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic World (Routledge Studies in International Economic and Social History) - Hardcover

McCusker, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415168414 ISBN 13: 9780415168410

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

The impressive range and depth of these essays does not obscure McCusker's central concern with colonial British America in an Atlantic world. All those interested in this burgeoning field will also welcome his updated Guides to Primary Sources for the History of Early British America which opens this volume, and the invaluable seventy-seven page multilingual bibliography of manuscripts, printed primary sources, and relevant scholarship which concludes this well-indexed volume.
–Canadian Journal of History, 12/98

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0415168414
• ISBN 13: 9780415168410
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 450