The Caribbean and the Atlantic World Economy: Circuits of trade, money and knowledge, 1650-1914 (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies)

This collection of essays explores the inter-imperial connections between British, Spanish, Dutch, and French Caribbean colonies, and the 'Old World' countries which founded them. Grounded in primary archival research, the thirteen contributors focus on the ways that participants in the Atlantic World economy transcended imperial boundaries. The volume presents linked chapters which together examine the evolving and strengthening interconnections between the changing political economies of Europe and the Caribbean during the 'long' eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It brings together research by well-established authors and early-career historians. Their work, and thus this volume, above all is about the historical formation of the modern political economy to which Europe and its Caribbean territories made a significant contribution. The chapters are about the exchanges and interconnections which characterised the Atlantic World; the book as a whole is about the Atlantic World's influence on the Caribbean, and the Caribbean's influence on the Atlantic World Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Experiments in Modernity: the Making of the Atlantic World Economy....Pages 1-14 From Seas to Ocean: Interpreting the Shift from the North Sea-Baltic World to the Atlantic, 1650–1800....Pages 15-35 On the Rocks: a New Approach to Atlantic World Trade, 1520–1890....Pages 36-67 Commerce and Conflict: Jamaica and the War of the Spanish Succession....Pages 68-86 Baltimore and the French Atlantic: Empires, Commerce, and Identity in a Revolutionary Age, 1783–1798....Pages 87-107 Modernity and the Demise of the Dutch Atlantic, 1650–1914....Pages 108-136 From Local to Transatlantic: Insuring Trade in the Caribbean....Pages 137-160 Slavery, the British Atlantic Economy, and the Industrial Revolution....Pages 161-183 Commodity Frontiers, Spatial Economy, and Technological Innovation in the Caribbean Sugar Industry, 1783–1878....Pages 184-216 From Periphery to Centre: Transatlantic Capital Flows, 1830–1890....Pages 217-237 Baring Brothers and the Cuban Plantation Economy, 1814–1870....Pages 238-262 Circuits of Knowledge: Foreign Technology and Transnational Expertise in Nineteenth-century Cuba....Pages 263-289 Afterword: Mercantilism and the Caribbean Atlantic World Economy....Pages 290-304 Back Matter....Pages 305-319 "Cover"--"Contents"--"List of Figures" -- "List of Tables" -- "Notes on Contributors" -- "1 Experiments in Modernity: the Making of the Atlantic World Economy" -- "2 From Seas to Ocean: Interpreting the Shift from the North Sea-Baltic World to the Atlantic, 1650â#x80;#x93;1800" -- "3 On the Rocks: a New Approach to Atlantic World Trade, 1520â#x80;#x93;1890" -- "4 Commerce and Conflict: Jamaica and the War of the Spanish Succession" -- "5 Baltimore and the French Atlantic: Empires, Commerce, and Identity in a Revolutionary Age, 1783â#x80;#x93;1798" -- "6 Modernity and the Demise of the Dutch Atlantic, 1650â#x80;#x93;1914" -- "7 From Local to Transatlantic: Insuring Trade in the Caribbean" -- "8 Slavery, the British Atlantic Economy, and the Industrial Revolution" -- "9 Commodity Frontiers, Spatial Economy, and Technological Innovation in the Caribbean Sugar Industry, 1783â#x80;#x93;1878" -- "10 From Periphery to Centre: Transatlantic Capital Flows, 1830â#x80;#x93;1890" -- "11 Baring Brothers and the Cuban Plantation Economy, 1814â#x80;#x93;1870" -- "12 Circuits of Knowledge: Foreign Technology and Transnational Expertise in Nineteenth-century Cuba" -- "13 Afterword: Mercantilism and the Caribbean Atlantic World Economy." 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