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Essays in the economic history of the Atlantic world [electronic resource] / John J. McCusker.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Routledge studies in international economic and social history ; 1.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.Description: xxiii, 426 p. : ill., mapsISBN:
  • 9780203989319
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  • Also available in print edition.
Contents:
1. Guides to primary sources for the history of early British America -- 2. The wine prise 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 -- 8. New York City and the Bristol packet : a chapter in eighteenth-century postal history -- 9. Colonial civil servant and counter-revolutionary : Thomas Irving (1738?-1800) in Boston, Charleston, and London -- 10. The current value of English exports, 1697-1800 -- 11. Sources of investment capital in the colonial Philadelphia shipping industry -- 12. The American invasion of Nassau in the Bahamas -- 13. Money supply, economic growth, and the quantity theory of money : France, 1650-1788 -- 14. The economy of the British West Indies, 1763-1790 : growth, stagnation, or decline?
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-407) and index.

1. Guides to primary sources for the history of early British America -- 2. The wine prise 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 -- 8. New York City and the Bristol packet : a chapter in eighteenth-century postal history -- 9. Colonial civil servant and counter-revolutionary : Thomas Irving (1738?-1800) in Boston, Charleston, and London -- 10. The current value of English exports, 1697-1800 -- 11. Sources of investment capital in the colonial Philadelphia shipping industry -- 12. The American invasion of Nassau in the Bahamas -- 13. Money supply, economic growth, and the quantity theory of money : France, 1650-1788 -- 14. The economy of the British West Indies, 1763-1790 : growth, stagnation, or decline?

Also available in print edition.

Electronic reproduction. [London, Eng. : Taylor and Francis, 2014]. PDF file created from digital scan of print book.

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