Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic World (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415168410)

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.

Author: John McCusker
ISBN-10: 0415168414
ISBN-13: 9780415168410
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 10/02/1997
Pages: 450
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.97lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.52w x 1.31d