St Peter Port 1680-1830: The History of an International Entrep�t - Hardcover

Cox, Gregory Stevens

9780851157580: St Peter Port 1680-1830: The History of an International Entrep�t

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0851157580 ISBN 13: 9780851157580

Publisher: Boydell Press, 1999

Gregory Stevens Cox's immensely readable and meticulously researched history of St Peter Port in the eighteenth century provides a fascinating account of the town's place in the trading world of the Atlantic. He shows that it was trade, not privateering, which led to the growth of the town; and he shows how it was transformed from a `French' to an `English' community. He brings the town and its inhabitants alive, in all their various activities of work, family and sociability. MARTIN DAUNTON, Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge For over a century St Peter Port, Guernsey, functioned as an international entrep�t, handling millions of gallons of alcohol and large quantities of tobacco. This study examines the volume and value of the port trade. But this is more than a simple study of the port. Using a variety of analytic techniques the author considers the impact of the entrep�t trade on the demographic, cultural and social structures of St Peter Port. He shows the consequences of migration and how a small, poor `French' town of some three thousand inhabitants was transformed into a wealthy `English' town with a population some five times greater.Dr GREGORY STEVENS COX is head of history, Blanchelande Girls' College, St Peter Port.

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Review:

There are precious few published works that recognise the crucial role that small ports played in the development of their hinterlands, and this is a welcome addtiion to the historiography of maritime historical studies. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY (US) Impressive in terms of its careful analysis and presentation of deatiled primary research. It presents a clear, cogent and very human picture of what was clearly an important but little-studies element of the urban and commercial network of eighteenth-century England. URBAN HISTORY

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