| Description |
xix, 377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world
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Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world.
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| Note |
Essays originally prepared for a conference titled "The Emergence of the Atlantic Economy," which was held in Charleston, South Carolina, in October 1999. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Peter A. Coclanis -- The Dutch Atlantic economies / Jan de Vries -- Self-organized complexity and the emergence of an Atlantic market economy, 1651-1815 : the case of Madeira / David Hancock -- Cloth and the emergence of the Atlantic economy / Robert S. DuPlessis -- The organization of trade and finance in the British Atlantic economy, 1600-1830 / 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 / Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert -- Atlantic trade and American identities : the correlations of supranational commerce, political opposition, and colonial regionalism / Claudia Schnurmann -- Dutch and New Netherland merchants in the seventeenth-century English Chesapeake / April Lee Hatfield -- Official duplicity : the illicit slave trade of Martinique, 1713-1763 / Kenneth J. Banks -- The Spanish empire and Cuban tobacco during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Laura Náter -- The drudgery of the slave trade : labor at Cape Coast Castle, 1750-1790 / Ty M. Reese -- Indians and the economy of eighteenth-century Carolina / Peter C. Mancall, Joshua L. Rosenbloom, and Thomas Weiss -- Planters' exchange patterns in the colonial Chesapeake : toward defining a regional domestic economy / Laura Croghan Kamoie -- The characters of commodities : the reputations of South Carolina rice and indigo in the Atlantic world / S. Max Edelson. |
| 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."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
North Atlantic Region -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses.
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North Atlantic Region. |
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Commerce. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
| Subject |
North Atlantic Region -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses.
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| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
North Atlantic Region -- Economic conditions -- 17th century -- Congresses.
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Economic conditions. |
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North Atlantic Region -- Economic conditions -- 18th century -- Congresses.
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North Atlantic Region -- Economic integration -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Coclanis, Peter A., 1952-
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| Added Title |
Atlantic economy during the 17th and 18th centuries |
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Atlantic economy during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries |
| ISBN |
1570035547 cloth alkaline paper |
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9781570035548 cloth alkaline paper |
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