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The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries is a collection of essays focusing on the expansion, elaboration, and increasing integration of the economy of the Atlantic basin-comprising parts of Europe, West Africa, and the Americas-during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In thirteen essays, the contributors examine the complex and variegated processes by which markets were created in the Atlantic basin and how they became integrated.
While a number of the contributors focus on the economic history of a specific European imperial system, others, mirroring the realities of the world they are writing about, transcend imperial boundaries and investigate topics shared throughout the region. In the latter case, the contributors focus either on processes occurring along the margins or interstices of empires, or on "breaches" in the colonial systems established by various European powers. Taken together, the essays shed much-needed light on the organization and operation of both the European imperial orders of the early modern era and the increasingly integrated economy of the Atlantic basin challenging these orders over the course of the same period. CONTRIBUTORS Kenneth J. Banks Jan de Vries Robert S. DuPlessis S. Max Edelson David Hancock April Lee Hatfield Laura Croghan Kamoie Peter C. Mancall R. C. Nash Laura Náter Ty M. Reese Joshua L. Rosenbloom Claudia Schnurmann Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert Thomas Weiss
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"The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries will have an immediate and important impact on the rapidly developing field of Atlantic history. Peter Coclanis and the volume's contributors have assembled a collection of first-rate scholarship, well written and nicely executed."-Russell R. Menard, University of Minnesota
"Should any doubt the richness of 'Atlantic History' as an approach to our understanding of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, let them turn to this perceptive collection. Herein a host of respected scholars engage fully in a breadth of topics encompassing the Dutch, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and British Empires, Africa, Europe, and the Americas to illuminate the interconnected nature of the Atlantic economy during the two hundred years prior to the Age of Revolutions. This work is essential for anyone interested in the early modern Atlantic World."-John J. McCusker, Ewing Halsell Distinguished Professor of American History and Professor of Economics, Trinity University
The Atlantic Economy During The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries: Organization, Operation, Practice, And Personnel (The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World)
The Atlantic Economy During The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries: Organization, Operation, Practice, And Personnel (The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World),Peter A. Coclanis,CONFERENCE THE EMERGENCE OF THE ATLANTI,University of South Carolina Press,1570035547,17th century,18th century,Business / Economics / Finance,Commerce,Congresses,Economic Conditions,Economic History,Economic integration,History,History: World,Modern - 17th Century,Modern - 18th Century,North Atlantic Region,Economics,Europe,The Americas,West Africa,c 1600 to c 1700,c 1700 to c 1800
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