Table of Contents

Figures. Tables. Abbreviations. Introduction 1. Guides to Primary Sources for the History of Early British America 2. The Wine Price and Medieval Mercantile Shipping 3. The Tonnage of Ships Engaged in British Colonial Trade during the Eighteenth Century 4. Weights and Measures in the Colonial Sugar Trade: The Gallon and the Pound and Their International Equivalents 5. The Rate of Exchange on Amsterdam in London, 1590-1660 6. The Italian Business Press in Early Modern Europe 7. The Business Press in England before 1775

About the Author

John McCusker

Reviews

"The impressive range and depth of these essays does not obscure McCusker's central concern with colonial British America in an Atlantic world. All those interested in this burgeoning field will also welcome his updated "Guides to Primary Sources for the History of Early British America" which opens this volume, and the invaluable seventy-seven page multilingual bibliography of manuscripts, printed primary sources, and relevant scholarship which concludes this well-indexed volume."
-"Canadian Journal of History, 12/98