1st Edition

The Portugal Trade A study of Anglo-Portugeuse Commerce 1700-1770

208 Pages

by Routledge

208 Pages

by Routledge

208 Pages

by Routledge

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Historians have long considered the ways in which the expansion of English trade beyond Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries contributed to the growth of English overseas trade as a whole, and to the coming of the Industrial Revolution. Their concentration on trade between England and her own colonies has led them, however, to neglect the importance of trade with the Spanish and... Read more

Acknowledgements page ix

List of Plates xi

List of Text Figures xiii

Abbreviations xv

Introduction 1

The Course of Anglo-Portuguese Trade 1700–1770

1 Expansion to 1760 13

2 Contraction in the 1760s 41

Commercial Organization

3 Textiles to Portugal and Brazil 53

4 Foodstuffs to Portugal 64

5 The Wine Trade 77