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Citizens of the World: London Merchants and the Integration of the British Atlantic Community, 1735-1785 » (1st Edition)

Authors: David Hancock
ISBN-13: 9780521629423, ISBN-10: 052162942X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: September 1997
Edition: 1st Edition

Examines the business and social strategies of the men who developed the British empire in the eighteenth century.

	Acknowledgments
	List of Tables
	List of Graphs
	List of Illustrations
	Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes
	Introduction	1
1	A Larger World	25
2	Mercantile Origins: Passengers Only	40
3	Managing from a Merchant's Public Counting-House	85
4	Shipping and Trading in an Empire of the Seas	115
5	Planting: A Great Fund of Riches and of Strength to Great Britain	143
6	Slaving: Bance Island's General Rendezvous	172
7	Government Contracting: A Work of Hercules	221
8	Financing: Turning the Great Wheel of Unfathomable Commerce Round	240
9	The Urge to Improve	279
10	The Way to Be Rich and Respectable	320
	Epilogue: Mercantile Legacies: Industrious Friends	383
	App. I Associates' Genealogies	399
	App. II Sources for the Shipping Database	406
	App. III Grant's Jamaican Plantations, 1752-72	409
	App. IV The Associates' Profits from Planting and Slaving	411
	App. V Bance Island Efficiency Levels, 1748-76	425
	App. VI The Associates' Lands, 1745-85	428
	App. VII The Associates' Art Collections	431
	List of Unpublished Sources	446
	Index	459