The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Organization, Operation, Practice, and Personnel

Peter A. Coclanis

• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781643361048, 9781570035548
• eBook ISBN: 9781643361055
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Economic History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• The Dutch Atlantic Economies
• Self-Organized Complexity and the Emergence of an Atlantic Market Economy, 1651–1815 The Case of Madeira
• Cloth and the Emergence of the Atlantic Economy
• The Organization of Trade and Finance in the British Atlantic Economy, 1600–1830
• Revisiting 1640; or, How the Party of Commercial Expansion Lost to the Party of Political Conservation in Spain’s Atlantic Empire, 1620–1650
• Atlantic Trade and American Identities The Correlations of Supranational Commerce, Political Opposition, and Colonial Regionalism
• Dutch and New Netherland Merchants in the Seventeenth-Century English Chesapeake
• Official Duplicity The Illicit Slave Trade of Martinique, 1713–1763
• The Spanish Empire and Cuban Tobacco during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
• The Drudgery of the Slave Trade Labor at Cape Coast Castle, 1750–1790
• Indians and the Economy of Eighteenth-Century Carolina
• Planters’ Exchange Patterns in the Colonial Chesapeake Toward Defining a Regional Domestic Economy
• The Characters of Commodities The Reputations of South Carolina Rice and Indigo in the Atlantic World
• Contributors
• Index