Merchant organization and maritime trade in the North Atlantic, 1660-1815 / edited by Olaf Uwe Janzen.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

International Maritime Economic History Association.

Janzen, Olaf Uwe, 1949- editor.

Conference Name:

International Economic History Congress (12th : 1998 : Seville, Spain). Session C.10 "Merchant organization and maritime trade in the North Atlantic, 1660-1815."

Series:

Research in maritime history ; Number 15.

Research in Maritime History, 1188-3928 ; Number 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Merchant marine--History--Congresses.

Merchant marine.

Merchant marine--North Atlantic Ocean--History--Congresses.

Shipping--North Atlantic Ocean--History--Congresses.

Shipping.

North Atlantic Region--Commerce--History--Congresses.

North Atlantic Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 267 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Merchant Organization & Maritime Trade in the North Atlantic, 1660-1815

Place of Publication:

St. John's, Newfoundland : International Maritime Economic History Association, 1998.

Summary:

This book presents the challenges faced by maritime merchants operating in the North Atlantic in the early modern period, and examines the opportunities, aspirations, and methods utilised in the pursuit of profitable trade. The book collects nine essays and a reflective conclusion, which cumulatively explore the major themes of trade within empires; growth of trade; new initiatives within trade empires; government initiatives in relation to maritime mercantile trade; merchant migration; and changes in international trade. The book attempts to provide scholarly insight and perspectives into early modern economic life, through the maritime mercantile activities of various European and North American nations.

Contents:

Introduction / Ian K. Steele

The Gaigneur clan in the seventeenth-century Canada trade / J.F. Bosher

Credit, risk and reputation in late seventeenth-century colonial trade / Nuala Zahedieh

The Huguenot diaspora and the development of the Atlantic economy : Huguenots and the growth of the South Carolina economy, 1680-1775 / R.C. Nash

Breaching the mercantile barriers of the Dutch colonial empire : North American trade with Surinam during the eighteenth century / Johannes Postma

A Scottish venture in the Newfoundland fish trade, 1726-1727 / Olaf Uwe Janzen

The consolidation of Bilbao as a trade centre in the second half of the seventeenth century / Aingeru Zabala Uriarte

Cutting out the middleman? American trade in northern Europe, 1783-1815 / Daniel A. Rabuzzi

A vital link in wartime : the organization of a trade and shipping network between the United States and Bordeaux, 1793-1815 / Silvia Marzagalli

The challenge of war on maritime trade in the North Atlantic : the case of the British trade to Iceland during the Napoleonic wars / Anna Agnarsdóttir

Merchant organization and maritime trade in the North Atlantic, 1660-1815 : some reflections / Henry G. Roseveare.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

"Papers written for presentation at Session C.10 of the Twelfth Congress of the International Economic History Association, which was to have been held in Seville, Spain in August 1998"--P. ix.

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ISBN:

1-78694-479-0

1-78694-921-0