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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 14-24 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	Dezember 2007
Genre:	Geschichte / Politik / Kultur
ISBN:	9780197264058
EAN-Code:	9780197264058
Verlag:	Oxford University Press
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Serie:	Records of Social and Economic History (New Series)
Dimensionen:	H 166 mm / B 242 mm / D 50 mm
Gewicht:	1296 gr
Seiten:	726
Bewertung:	Titel bewerten / Meinung schreiben

Inhalt:

The documents collected here illuminate the conduct of British trade and investments in the Caribbean when slavery was at its height and Jamaica was the wealthiest territory in Britain's Atlantic empire. Pertaining to the commercial and plantation interests of two Bristol families connected through marriage and business, the documents include correspondence, wills and inventories, partnership agreements, insurance policies and property deeds. The introduction addresses issues of the slave trade and sugar cultivation, capital accumulation, the ways in which a West India fortune was created, the risk environment of the Caribbean, and social, economic and demographic conditions in eighteenth-century Bristol and Jamaica. A valuable source for historians of the Georgian period, this volume shows that British merchants connected with the West Indies were centrally concerned with improvement, independence, and social mobility.