Introduction John J. McCusker and Kenneth Morgan; Part I. The Role of
Merchants and their Connections: 1. Risk, credit and kinship in early
modern enterprise Peter Mathias; 2. Business networks in the British export
trade to North America, 1750-1800 Kenneth Morgan; Part II. The Development
of Trades: 3. Property versus commerce in the mid-eighteenth century port
of London Henry Roseveare; 4. Irish businessman and French courtier: the
career of Thomas Sutton, Comte de Clonard, c. 1722-1782 L. M. Cullen; 5. 'A
revolution in the trade': wine distribution and the development of the
infrastructure of the Atlantic market economy, 1703-1807 David Hancock; 6.
Law, credit, the supply of labour, and the organization of sugar production
in the colonial greater Caribbean: a comparison of Brazil and Barbados in
the seventeenth century Russell R. Menard; 7. The revolutionary impact of
European demand for tropical goods Carole Shammas; 8. The business of
distilling in the Old World and the New World during the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries: the rise of a new enterprise and its connection with
colonial America John J. McCusker; Part III. Imperial Economies: 9. France,
Britain, and the economic growth of colonial North America Stanley L.
Engerman; 10. Merchants and bankers as patriots or speculators? Foreign
commerce and monetary policy in wartime, 1793-1815 Patrick K. O'Brien; 11.
America and the crisis of the British imperial economy, 1803-1807 François
Crouzet; Part IV. Colonial Working Societies: 12. Emigration and the
standard of living: the eighteenth-century Chesapeake Lois Green Carr; 13.
After tobacco: the slave labour pattern on a large Chesapeake
grain-and-livestock plantation in the early nineteenth century Richard S.
Dunn.
