TY - BOOK AU - McCusker,John J. ED - T&F eBooks. TI - Essays in the economic history of the Atlantic world T2 - Routledge studies in international economic and social history SN - 9780203989319 PY - 1997/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Economic history KW - United States KW - Economic conditions KW - To 1865- KW - Great Britain KW - Colonies KW - America KW - West Indies, British KW - North Atlantic Region KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9780203989319 ER -