A West India Fortune
Details:
- Author(s) Pares, Richard
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1950
- Pages 374pp; illus
- Publisher Longmans
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Finance of production & trade
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Early scholarly work based on the full archives of the Pinney business. Structured in two parts, one dealing with sugar plantation management on West Indian island of Nevis and the other dealing with the subsequent sugar factor's business at Bristol: 1] 'The Plantation': 'An excile leaves England'; 'Nevis in Azariah Pinney's time'; 'Azariah founds the fortune'; 'Azariah's son and grandson'; 'The second founder of the fortune'; 'John Pinney on plantation management'; 'The torments of an absentee'; 2] 'The merchant house': 'The family and the firm'; 'The Bristol sugar market'; 'West India shipping'; 'The history of a West India debt' dealing with the Pinney finance of sugar plantation businesses using as a case study a loan to William McDowall Colhoun from late 18th to early 19th century'; 'The liquidation of West India property'; 'Profit and loss'. Includes some statistical analysis, notably for late 18th and early 19th centuries