Jacob M. Price

The external economy of British North America has attracted considerable scholarly attention in the last two generations, and the papers reprinted here, in this second collection from Jacob Price, make important contributions to quantification, conceptualisation and debate. Studies presenting and analysing new statistical material from the English and Scottish customs accounts are supplemented by a general survey of the transatlantic economy in the 18th century which is required reading for all students of the subject. Price's treatment is diversified into financial arrangements and the role of credit in the slave trade and plantation economies. In a provocative chapter "Who cared about the colonies?", concern in Britain for the 13 colonies between 1714 and 1775 is explored in terms of the ability of the colonies to involve the interests and command the attention and concern of people in Britain from the politically eminent to those in trade and to the nation at large.

Essays in Eighteenth-Century Commercial and Social History

The Atlantic Frontier of the Thirteen American Colonies and States

William Ewart Gladstone

Ralph E. Giesey

Julius Rubin

Arthur Lewis Wood

Robert Lewis Baker

Shlomo Pines

Louis Schram

Enterprise, Politics, and Diplomacy in the Quest for a Northern Market for English Colonial Tobacco, 1676-1722

The Tobacco Adventure to Russia

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The Monguors of the Kansu-Tibetan Frontier

Jacob M. Price

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