Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: scarcity and frontiers
- 2 The Agricultural Transition (from 10,000 BC to 3000 BC)
- 3 The Rise of Cities (from 3000 BC to 1000 AD)
- 4 The Emergence of the World Economy (from 1000 to 1500)
- 5 Global Frontiers and the Rise of Western Europe (from 1500 to 1914)
- 6 The Atlantic Economy Triangular Trade (from 1500 to 1860)
- 7 The Golden Age of Resource-Based Development (from 1870 to 1914)
- 8 The Age of Dislocation (from 1914 to 1950)
- 9 The Contemporary Era (from 1950 to the present)
- 10 Epilogue: the Age of Ecological Scarcity?
- Index
- References
6 - The Atlantic Economy Triangular Trade (from 1500 to 1860)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: scarcity and frontiers
- 2 The Agricultural Transition (from 10,000 BC to 3000 BC)
- 3 The Rise of Cities (from 3000 BC to 1000 AD)
- 4 The Emergence of the World Economy (from 1000 to 1500)
- 5 Global Frontiers and the Rise of Western Europe (from 1500 to 1914)
- 6 The Atlantic Economy Triangular Trade (from 1500 to 1860)
- 7 The Golden Age of Resource-Based Development (from 1870 to 1914)
- 8 The Age of Dislocation (from 1914 to 1950)
- 9 The Contemporary Era (from 1950 to the present)
- 10 Epilogue: the Age of Ecological Scarcity?
- Index
- References
Summary
The development of an Atlantic economy is impossible to imagine without slavery and the slave trade.
(O’Brien and Engerman 1991, p. 207)Introduction
With the rise of the Western European states and their conquest and exploitation of Global Frontiers, the pattern of international trade in the world economy changed decisively.
First, the Italian city-states, followed by the Portuguese and Spanish, and then the French, English and Dutch, took over the East–West trade in spices, tea and coffee. As we saw in the previous chapter, the race for this trade precipitated a unique pattern of colonization and frontier expansion across Asia and the Pacific.
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- Information
- Scarcity and FrontiersHow Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation, pp. 306 - 367Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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