450 Pages
by
Routledge
450 Pages
by
Routledge
450 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Figures. Tables. Abbreviations. Introduction 1. Guides to Primary Sources for the History of Early British America 2. The Wine Price 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
Biography
John McCusker
