Gateway of Empire
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- Author(s) MacInnes, Charles M
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1939
- Pages 456pp; illus
- Publisher J W Arrowsmith
- Place Published Bristol
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly work. Reprinted 1968. Early account of Bristol's international activities from the 15th century and most notably its economic contribution to British imperialism especially in the Americas. Includes much about slave trading, sugar, tobacco, shipping, Society of Merchant Venturers. Also some coverage of particular merchant families, notably the Pinneys and Thornes. Chapters include: 'The period of preparation'; 'Marking time'; 'Pioneers of empire'; 'From Massachusetts to Cathay'; 'Newfoundland and Virginia'; 'The North West Passage'; 'Quakers and privateers'; 'Immigrants, free and forced'; 'Gold, ivory and slaves'; 'The slave trade'; 'The sugar islands'; 'Fish, tobacco and fruit'; 'Breakdown of the old colonial system'; 'The greatest civil war in British history'; 'John Pinney, planter and merchant'; 'The end of British plantation slavery'; 'Retrogression and recovery'; 'Africa, India and the Antipodes'; 'Links of empire'; 'Empire builders'