Baltic Iron and the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century
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- Author(s) Evans, Chris, & Göran Rydén
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2007
- Pages 259pp; illus
- Publisher Brill
- Place Published Leiden
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- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with the relatively very substantial imports of iron into Britain from Sweden and Russia which sustained British industrial production of iron goods which were subsequently exported into the Atlantic economy. Describes this process - merchanting, distribution, fabrication - in detail in a very long chapter 'Topography of the early modern iron trade, c1730' [pp42-215]. Includes much about the merchants Graffin Prankard of Bristol and Francis Jennings of Stockholm