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The Fall of the Planter Class in the British Caribbean, 1763-1833
Author: Lowell Joseph Ragatz
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13:
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The Economic History of the Caribbean Since the Napoleonic Wars
Author: V. Bulmer-Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-10-29
Total Pages: 733
ISBN-13: 0521145600
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the economic history of the Caribbean, and is the first analysis to span the whole region.
The Economy of British America, 1607-1789
Author: John J. McCusker
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 1469600005
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →By the American Revolution, the farmers and city-dwellers of British America had achieved, individually and collectively, considerable prosperity. The nature and extent of that success are still unfolding. In this first comprehensive assessment of where research on prerevolutionary economy stands, what it seeks to achieve, and how it might best proceed, the authors discuss those areas in which traditional work remains to be done and address new possibilities for a 'new economic history.'
Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic World
Author: John McCusker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-15
Total Pages: 586
ISBN-13: 1134703392
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written by one of the leading authorities on trade and finance in the early modern Atlantic world, these fourteen essays, revised and integrated for this volume, share as their common theme the development of the Atlantic economy, especially British America and the Caribbean. Topics treated range from early attempts in medieval England to measure the carrying capacity of ships, through the advent in Renaissance Italy and England of business newspapers that reported on the traffic of ships, cargoes and market prices, to the state of the economy of France over the two hundred years before the French Revolution and of the British West Indies between 1760 and 1790. Included is the story of Thomas Irving who challenged and thwarted the likes of John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
Rethinking the Fall of the Planter Class
Author: Christer Petley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-03-08
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1315516071
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the late eighteenth century, the planter class of the British Caribbean were faced with challenges stemming from revolutions, war, the rise of abolitionism and social change. By the nineteenth century, this once powerful group within the British Empire found itself struggling to influence an increasingly hostile government in London. By 1807, parliament had voted to abolish the slave trade: an early episode in a wider drama of decline for New World plantation economies. This book brings together chapters by a group of leading scholars to rethink the question of the ‘fall of the planter class’, offering a variety of new approaches to the topic, encompassing economic, political, cultural, and social history and providing a significant new contribution to our rapidly evolving understanding of the end of slavery in the British Atlantic empire. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.
Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834
Author: B. W. Higman
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9789766400088
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1976 (see HLAS 40:2983), work is a masterful analysis of the dynamics of slave labor in the economic growth of early-19th-century Jamaica. Discusses various characteristics of slave and free-colored population including mortality, birth rates, manumission, distribution, and structure, as well as jobs performed on island as a whole. Contains excellent statistical tables and new introduction by author. -Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58
The British Transatlantic Slave Trade Vol 4
Author: Kenneth Morgan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-24
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1000559572
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains primary texts relating to the British slave trade in the 17th and 18th century. The first volume contains two 18th-century texts covering the slave trade in Africa. Volume two focuses on the work of the Royal African company, and volumes three and four focus on the abolitionists' struggle.
The Economics of Emancipation
Author: Kathleen Mary Butler
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2018-02-01
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1469639793
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The British Slavery Abolition Act of 1834 provided a grant of u20 million to compensate the owners of West Indian slaves for the loss of their human 'property.' In this first comparative analysis of the impact of the award on the colonies, Mary Butler focuses on Jamaica and Barbados, two of Britain's premier sugar islands. The Economics of Emancipation examines the effect of compensated emancipation on colonial credit, landownership, plantation land values, and the broader spheres of international trade and finance. Butler also brings the role and status of women as creditors and plantation owners into focus for the first time. Through her analysis of rarely used chancery court records, attorneys' letters, and compensation returns, Butler underscores the fragility of the colonial economies of Jamaica and Barbados, illustrates the changing relationship between planters and merchants, and offers new insights into the social and political history of the West Indies and Britain.
