Trade and the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850

by Stanley L. Engerman

Overview

This two volume set reprints 37 important contributions dealing with international trade throughout the world during the rise of Great Britain to world dominance, the industrialization of Western Europe, and the political and economic expansion of European powers into Asia, Africa and the Americas.

The period from 1700 to 1850 saw many dramatic changes in the world economy. Frequent war among the European nations also affected these changes, influencing the timing and perhaps the ultimate magnitude of intercontinental trade.

In addition to discussions of commodity trade in different parts of the world, essays in these volumes deal with the effects of governmental policies towards the flows of capital and labour and the emergence of trading institutions and their impacts on economic development. Many deal with controversial topics such as the role of slavery and the slave trade on European development, the burdens of mercantilism, and the impact of European expansion on the economies of the less developed parts of the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781858980072
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date:	03/01/1996
Series:	The Growth of the World Economy series , #2
Pages:	936
Product dimensions:	6.62(w) x 9.62(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edited by Stanley L. Engerman, John H. Munro Professor of Economics and Professor of History, University of Rochester, US

Table of Contents

Volume I
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: The Broad Overview
1. C.P. Kindleberger (1975), ‘Commercial Expansion and Industrial Revolution’
2. P. Bairoch (1973), ‘European Foreign Trade in the XIX Century: The Development of the Value and Volume of Exports [Preliminary Results]’
3. R.A. Austen and W.D. Smith (1990), ‘Private Tooth Decay as Public Economic Virtue: The Slave-Sugar Triangle, Consumerism, and European Industrialization’
Part II: Great Britain
4. R. Davis (1962) ‘English Foreign Trade, 1700-1774’
5. J.M. Price (1961, ‘Multilateralism and/or Bilateralism: The Settlement of British Trade Balances with “The North”, c. 1700’
6. F. Crouzet (1980), ‘Toward an Export Economy: British Exports during the Industrial Revolution’
7. R. Davis (1979), ‘The Industrial Revolution British overseas trade’
8. A.H. Imlah (1950), ‘The Terms of Trade of the United Kingdom, 1798-1913’
9. R. Pares (1956), ‘The London Sugar Market, 1740-1769’
10. T.M. Devine (1976), ‘The Colonial Trades and Industrial Investment in Scotland, c. 1700-1815’
Part III: France
11. P. Villiers (1991), ‘The Slave and Colonial Trade in France just before the Revolution’
12. P. Butel (1986), ‘Traditions and Changes in French Atlantic Trade Between 1780 and 1830’
Part IV: The United States
13. J.F. Shepherd and G.M Walton (1976), ‘Economic Change after the American Revolution: Pre- and Post-War Comparisons of Maritime Shipping and Trade’
14. C.D. Goldin and F.D. Lewis (1980), ‘The Role of Exports in American Economic Growth during the Napoleonic Wars, 1793 to1807’
15. D.C. North (1961), ‘International Economic Flows – 1815-1860’
16. P. Temin (1967), ‘The Causes of Cotton-Price Fluctuations in the 1830’s’
Name Index
Volume II
Acknowledgements
Part I: Africa, The Tropics, Asia and Australia
1. P. O’Brien (1982), ‘European Economic Development: The Contribution of the Periphery’
2. D. Eltis and L.C. Jennings (1988), ‘Trade between Western Africa and the Atlantic World in the Pre-Colonial Era’
3. R.B. Sheridan (1969), ‘The Plantation Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, 1625-1775’
4. N.H. Leff (1973), ‘Tropical Trade and Development in the Nineteenth Century: The Brazilian Experience’
5. F.J.A. Broeze (1975), ‘The Cost of Distance: Shipping and the Early Australian Economy, 1788-1850’
6. K.N. Chaudhuri (1966), ‘India’s Foreign Trade and the Cessation of the East India Company’s Trading Activities, 1828-40’
Part II: Policy Issues
7. L.A. Harper (1942), ‘Mercantilism and the American Revolution
8. L. Sawers (1992), ‘The Navigation Acts Revisited’
9. H.-C. Mui and L.H. Mui (1968-9), ‘Smuggling and the British Tea Trade Before 1784’
10. F. Crouzet (1964), ‘Wars, Blockade, and Economic Change in Europe, 1792-1815’
11. M. Bils (1984), ‘Tariff Protection and Production in the Early U.S. Cotton Textile Industry’
12. P.J. Cain and A.G. Hopkins (1986), ‘Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Expansion Overseas I. The Old Colonial System, 1688-1850’
Part III: Factor Movements
13. H.A. Gemery and J.S. Hogendorn (1974), ‘The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Tentative Economic Model’
14. B.L. Solow (1985), ‘Caribbean Slavery and British Growth: The Eric Williams Hypothesis’
15. R. Menard (1977), ‘From Servants to Slaves: The Transformation of the Chesapeake Labor System’
16. D.W. Galenson (1984), ‘The Rise and Fall of Indentured Servitude in the Americas: An Economic Analysis’
17. L. Neal (1991), ‘A Tale of Two Revolutions: International Capital Flows 1789-1819’
Part IV: Trade Institutions
18. D.C. North (1968), ‘Sources of Productivity Change in Ocean Shipping, 1600-1850’
19. C.K. Harley (1988), ‘Ocean Freight Rates and Productivity, 1740-1913: The Primacy of Mechanical Invention Reaffirmed’
20. J.M. Price (1989), ‘What did Merchants Do? Reflections on British Overseas Trade, 1660-1790’
21. J.M. Price and P.G.E. Clemens (1987), ‘A Revolution of Scale in Overseas Trade: British Firms in the Chesapeake Trade, 1675-1775’
Name Index