'Sugar Refining in Bristol' in K Bruland & P O'Brien (eds), From Family Firms to Corporate Capitalism. Essays in business and industrial history in honour of Peter Mathias
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- Author(s) Morgan, Kenneth
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1998
- Pages pp139-69
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Place Published Oxford
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Describes and analyses in a chronological order the neglected history of Bristol's important sugar refining industry from the 17th to the 19th century with regard to the nature of the industry and individual sugar houses, its important links to imperial trade, and the business and industrial fluctuations it experienced. Provides a schedule of selected sugar refining partnerships