Bristol and the Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century
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- Author(s) Morgan, Kenneth
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1993
- Pages 281pp
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Analyses the commercial organisation of Bristol's overseas trade in its 'golden era', shedding light also on its shipping and port. Focuses especially on its participation in the slave trade, West India sugar trade and American tobacco trade and pays 'close attention to the entrepreneurial practices of merchants in the city'. Has chapters: 'Atlantic trade and the port of Bristol'; 'Shipping'; 'Export trade'; 'Slave trade'; 'Tobacco trade'; 'Sugar trade'. Partly draws on the writer's thesis 'Bristol Merchants and the Colonial Trades, 1748-83', DPhil, Oxford, 1984