The Caribbean and the Atlantic World Economy : Circuits of Trade, Money and Knowledge, 1650-1914.

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 Caribbean -- 8 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.

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.

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