France and the Chesapeake. A history of the French tobacco monopoly, 1674-1791, and of its relationship to the British and American tobacco trades, etc

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Deals with the history of the French tobacco monopoly; the activities of the French tobacco agents in Britain in their purchase of imported Virginia tobacco and the effect of these on the British-American trade; the history of the monopoly in the period after the American War of Independence. Structured in three parts: 1] 'France: institutions and interests, 1674-1791' [pp3-506]; 2] 'Britain and the Chesapeake - monopolistic elements in an open market' [pp509-677] - 'Britain and the French market up to the Treaty of Utrecht' / 'The French Agency in London - the early agents, 1697-1739' / 'The French Agency in London - the rise of Abbe Huber and the FitzGeralds' / 'The Purchasing Commission during the war years, 1739-63' / 'The French agency in the English outports and in Scotland, 1725-65' / 'The last great struggle for the French Agency in Great Britain, 1766-75' / 'The French monopoly as a monopsonistic buyer in the British (sic) tobacco market, 1700-1775 - some economic implications'; 3] 'Postscript, 1775-91' [pp681-842] - 'The war years, 1775-83' / 'The tobacco trade during the last years of the monopoly, 1783-91' / 'An interrupted history'