Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic World

Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic World
Author: John McCusker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2005-08-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134703406

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.

Book Auction Records

Book Auction Records
Author: Frand Karslake
Publisher:
Total Pages: 740
Release: 1905
Genre: Autographs
ISBN:

A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.