Bristol and the birth of the Atlantic economy, 1500-1700 / Richard Stone.
| Author/creator | Stone, Richard author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Woodbridge ; Rochester : Boydell Press, 2024. |
| Copyright Date | ©2024 |
| Description | xiv, 249 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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| Summary | Analyses data from the Bristol Port Books to rewrite the history of trade in Bristol, including the city's early involvement with the slave trade.0The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a transformative period for global commerce, with the principal focus of England's trade shifting away from trade with Europe, primarily in woollen cloth, to a new Atlantic system, with trade in a diverse range of commodities. Based on the fantastically detailed Bristol Port Books, previously thought impenetrable, and using new computer technology to analyse the vast amount of data, this book provides the first long duration history of a major Atlantic port in this period.0It rewrites the history of Bristol's trade, overturning much established thinking, for example showing that trade flourished in the late Tudor and early Stuart period, demonstrating that Bristol was involved in the slave trade much earlier than was previously thought and charting the growth of commerce with North America and the Caribbean from nothing to three quarters of Bristol's imports in the short period from the 1630s to the 1650s. Overall, the book represents a major contribution to understanding how the Atlantic economy worked and how it developed in this crucial period. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9781837650538 |
| ISBN | 1837650535 (hardcover) |
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