Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Organization, Operation, Practice, and Personnel

Auteur: Coclanis, Peter A.
Éditeur: University of South Carolina Press
Collection: Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World
ISBN: 9781643361048
eISBN Pdf: 9781643361055
Lieu de publication: South Carolina , United States
Année de publication électronique: 2020
Mois : Mai
DDC: 330.9182/1/09032
Langue: Anglais

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The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries is a collection of essays focusing on the expansion, elaboration, and increasing integration of the economy of the Atlantic basin—comprising parts of Europe, West Africa, and the Americas—during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In thirteen essays, the contributors examine the complex and variegated processes by which markets were created in the Atlantic basin and how they became integrated.

While a number of the contributors focus on the economic history of a specific European imperial system, others, mirroring the realities of the world they are writing about, transcend imperial boundaries and investigate topics shared throughout the region. In the latter case, the contributors focus either on processes occurring along the margins or interstices of empires, or on "breaches" in the colonial systems established by various European powers. Taken together, the essays shed much-needed light on the organization and operation of both the European imperial orders of the early modern era and the increasingly integrated economy of the Atlantic basin challenging these orders over the course of the same period.

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The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Dutch Atlantic Economies
Self-Organized Complexity and the Emergence of an Atlantic Market Economy, 1651–1815 The Case of Madeira
Cloth and the Emergence of the Atlantic Economy
The Organization of Trade and Finance in the British Atlantic Economy, 1600–1830
Revisiting 1640; or, How the Party of Commercial Expansion Lost to the Party of Political Conservation in Spain’s Atlantic Empire, 1620–1650
Atlantic Trade and American Identities The Correlations of Supranational Commerce, Political Opposition, and Colonial Regionalism
Dutch and New Netherland Merchants in the Seventeenth-Century English Chesapeake
Official Duplicity The Illicit Slave Trade of Martinique, 1713–1763
The Spanish Empire and Cuban Tobacco during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The Drudgery of the Slave Trade Labor at Cape Coast Castle, 1750–1790
Indians and the Economy of Eighteenth-Century Carolina
Planters’ Exchange Patterns in the Colonial Chesapeake Toward Defining a Regional Domestic Economy
The Characters of Commodities The Reputations of South Carolina Rice and Indigo in the Atlantic World
Contributors
Index