Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 453 g
Reihe: Variorum Collected Studies
The Chesapeake, London and Glasgow, 1675–1775
Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 453 g
Reihe: Variorum Collected Studies
ISBN: 978-0-86078-548-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
This is the first of three volumes selected from the papers of Jacob M. Price. Focusing on the Atlantic tobacco trade in the 18th century, these studies illustrate the complex business history of this commercial enterprise and demonstrate its key importance in shaping economic relationships between Britain and the emerging American economy. Detailed studies of individual firms such as Buchanan & Simson and Joshua Johnson are well-known as classics of 18th-century business history, and these studies are placed in broader context by Price's seminal characterisations of the scale and structure of the Chesapeake trade. A previously unpublished paper offers a recent perspective on the market structure of the colonial Chesapeake, the role of the slave economy, and a critique of received historiography.
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Contents: Introduction; The rise of Glasgow in the Chesapeake tobacco trade, 1707-1775; The economic growth of the Chesapeake and the European market, 1697-1775; A revolution of scale in overseas trade: British firms in the Chesapeake trade, 1675-1775; Merchants and planters: the market structure of the colonial Chesapeake reconsidered; Sheffield v. Starke: institutional experimentation in the London-Maryland trade ca. 1696-1706; Buchanan and Simson, 1759-1763: a different kind of Glasgow firm trading to the Chesapeake; The last phase of the Virginia-London consignment trade: James Buchanan and Co., 1758-1768; Joshua Johnson in London, 1771-1775: credit and commercial organization in the British Chesapeake trade; One family's empire: the Russell-Lee-Clerk connection in Maryland, Britain, and India, 1707-1857 Index.
