Tobacco Lords. A study of the tobacco merchants of Glasgow and their trading activities, c1740-1790

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Author(s) Devine, Thomas M
Publication type Monograph
Year published 1975
Pages 209pp; illus
Publisher John Donald Publishers
Place Published Edinburgh

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Name Geopolitical event, natural disaster, etc, impact on business inc end of empire, war, disease, catastrophe, etc, exc industrial conflict

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Library:

Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:

See the writer's doctoral thesis 'Glasgow Merchants in Colonial Trade, 1770-1815', Strathclyde, 1972. Deals with the transatlantic tobacco trade, trading methods and the Glasgow merchant families that dominated it. Analyses the impact on the trade of the War of American Independence