Citizens of the World: London Merchants and the Integration of the British Atlantic Community, 1735-1785Cambridge University Press, 13 sept. 1997 - 477 pages Citizens of the World examines the business and social strategies of the men who developed the British empire in the eighteenth century. This book focuses on twenty-three London merchants who traded with America in an age of imperial expansion. These "associates" started their careers as marginal people, sought and took advantage of opportunities around the world, and approached their business and social lives with the improving ideals of the practical Enlightenment. This activity is placed in the context of the developing institutions of Britain's colonies in America and the social world of polite and industrious men and women at home. |
Table des matières
Introduction I | 11 |
A Larger World 25 | 25 |
The Management of Trade | 81 |
The Urge to Improve | 279 |
The Way to Be Rich and Respectable | 320 |
Mercantile Legacies Industrious Friends | 383 |
Sources for the Shipping Database | 406 |
Bance Island Efficiency Levels 174876 | 425 |
List of Unpublished Sources | 446 |
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