Capital and Credit in British Overseas Trade : The View from the Chesapeake, 1700-1776 / Jacob M. Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, Jacob M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capital--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History--18th century.

Capital.

Capital--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Credit--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History--18th century.

Credit.

Credit--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Capital--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.

Credit--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--Commerce--History.

HISTORY / General.

HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775).

Local Subjects:

Capital--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.

Credit--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--Commerce--History.

HISTORY / General.

HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

CAPITAL AND CREDIT IN BRITISH OVERSEAS TRADE

1. Introduction

2. The Problem of Debt Viewed from the Chesapeake

3. Capitalization of Merchant Firms

4. Borrowing on Bond

5. Borrowing from Banks

6. Commercial Credit

7. The Significance of Credit and the Financial Crisis of 1772

8. The Implications for British Industrial and Commercial Development

Appendixes Notes Bibliography Index

Appendix A. Markups and Profit Margins in the Chesapeake Trade

Appendix B. Capitalization of Glasgow Chesapeake Firms between 1740 and 1789 (in Sterling)

Appendix C. Document on Credit and the Cargo Trade

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-43502-8

OCLC:

652268629