The Atlantic Economy During The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries

by Coclanis, Peter A.; CONFERENCE THE EMERGENCE OF THE ATLANTI

• ISBN13: 9781570035548
• ISBN10: 1570035547
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-28
• Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
Peter A. Coclanis
The Dutch Atlantic Economies	1	(29)
Jan de Vries
Self-Organized Complexity and the Emergence of an Atlantic Market Economy, 1651-1815	30	(42)
The Case of Madeira	30	(42)
David Hancock
Cloth and the Emergence of the Atlantic Economy	72	(23)
Robert S. DuPlessis
The Organization of Trade and Finance in the British Atlantic Economy, 1600-1830	95	(57)
R.C. Nash
Revisiting 1640; or, How the Party of Commercial Expansion Lost to the Party of Political Conservation in Spain's Atlantic Empire, 1620-1650	152	(34)
Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert
Atlantic Trade and American Identities	186	(19)
The Correlations of Supranational Commerce, Political Opposition, and Colonial Regionalism
Claudia Schnurmann
Dutch and New Netherland Merchants in the Seventeenth-Century English Chesapeake	205	(24)
April Lee Hatfield
Official Duplicity	229	(23)
The Illicit Slave Trade of Martinique, 1713-1763
Kenneth J. Banks
The Spanish Empire and Cuban Tobacco during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	252	(25)
Laura Náter
The Drudgery of the Slave Trade	277	(20)
Labor at Cape Coast Castle, 1750-1790
Ty M. Reese
Indians and the Economy of Eighteenth-Century Carolina	297	(26)
Peter C. Mancall, Joshua L. Rosenbloom, and Thomas Weiss
Planters' Exchange Patterns in the Colonial Chesapeake	323	(21)
Toward Defining a Regional Domestic Economy
Laura Croghan Kamoie
The Characters of Commodities	344	(17)
The Reputations of South Carolina Rice and Indigo in the Atlantic World
S. Max Edelson
Contributors	361	(2)
Index	363