Contents

pp v-vi

List of figures

pp vii-vii

List of tables

pp viii-ix

List of abbreviations

pp x-xii

List of contributors

pp xiii-xiii

Dedication

pp xiv-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-12

Part I - The role of merchants and their connections

pp 13-14

1 - Risk, credit and kinship in early modern enterprise

pp 15-35

2 - Business networks in the British export trade to North America, 1750–1800

pp 36-62

Part II - The development of trades

pp 63-64

3 - Property versus commerce in the mid-eighteenth-century port of London

pp 65-85

4 - Irish businessman and French courtier: the career of Thomas sutton, comte de Clonard, c. 1722–1782

pp 86-104

5 - ‘A revolution in the trade’: wine distribution and the development of the infrastructure of the Atlantic market economy, 1703–1807

pp 105-153

6 - Law, credit, the supply of labour, and the organization of sugar production in the colonial Greater Caribbean: a comparison of Brazil and Barbados in the seventeenth century

pp 154-162

7 - The revolutionary impact of European demand for tropical goods

pp 163-185

8 - The business of distilling in the Old World and the New World during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the rise of a new enterprise and its connection with colonial America

pp 186-224

Part III - Imperial economies

pp 225-226

9 - France, Britain and the economic growth of colonial North America

pp 227-249

10 - Merchants and bankers as patriots or speculators? Foreign commerce and monetary policy in wartime, 1793–1815

pp 250-277

11 - America and the crisis of the British imperial economy,1803–1807

pp 278-316

Part IV - Colonial working societies

pp 317-318

12 - Emigration and the standard of living: the eighteenth-century Chesapeake

pp 319-343

13 - After tobacco: The slave labour pattern on a large Chesapeake grain-and-livestock plantation in the early nineteenth century

pp 344-363

Index

pp 364-369