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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961120003321

Titolo

The Caribbean and the Atlantic World Economy : Circuits of trade, money and knowledge, 1650-1914 / / edited by Adrian Leonard, D. Pretel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015

ISBN

9781137432728

1137432721

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Collana

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, , 2635-1641

Disciplina

RE/330.9729

Soggetti

Imperialism

America - History

Economic history

World history

History, Modern

Europe - History

Imperialism and Colonialism

History of the Americas

Economic History

World History, Global and Transnational History

Modern History

European History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; 1 Experiments in Modernity: the Making of the Atlantic World Economy; 2 From Seas to Ocean: Interpreting the Shift from the North Sea-Baltic World to the Atlantic, 1650-1800; 3 On the Rocks: a New Approach to Atlantic World Trade, 1520-1890; 4 Commerce and Conflict: Jamaica and the War of the Spanish Succession; 5 Baltimore and the French Atlantic: Empires, Commerce, and Identity in a Revolutionary Age, 1783-1798; 6 Modernity and the Demise of the Dutch Atlantic, 1650-



1914

7 From Local to Transatlantic: Insuring Trade in the Caribbean8 Slavery, the British Atlantic Economy, and the Industrial Revolution; 9 Commodity Frontiers, Spatial Economy, and Technological Innovation in the Caribbean Sugar Industry, 1783-1878; 10 From Periphery to Centre: Transatlantic Capital Flows, 1830-1890; 11 Baring Brothers and the Cuban Plantation Economy, 1814-1870; 12 Circuits of Knowledge: Foreign Technology and Transnational Expertise in Nineteenth-century Cuba; 13 Afterword: Mercantilism and the Caribbean Atlantic World Economy; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays explores the inter-imperial connections between British, Spanish, Dutch, and French Caribbean colonies, and the 'Old World' countries which founded them. Grounded in primary archival research, the thirteen contributors focus on the ways that participants in the Atlantic World economy transcended imperial boundaries.