The Bright-Meyler Papers - A Bristol-West India Connection, 1732-1837 (Hardcover, New)

The documents collected here illuminate the conduct of British trade and investments in the Caribbean when slavery was at its height and Jamaica was the wealthiest territory in Britain's Atlantic empire. Pertaining to the commercial and plantation interests of two Bristol families connected through marriage and business, the documents include correspondence, wills and inventories, partnership agreements, insurance policies and property deeds.
The introduction addresses issues of the slave trade and sugar cultivation, capital accumulation, the ways in which a West India fortune was created, the risk environment of the Caribbean, and social, economic and demographic conditions in eighteenth-century Bristol and Jamaica.
A valuable source for historians of the Georgian period, this volume shows that British merchants connected with the West Indies were centrally concerned with improvement, independence, and social mobility.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Records of Social and Economic History (New Series), Vol 40
Release date:	December 2007
First published:	March 2008
Editors:	Kenneth Morgan
Dimensions:	242 x 164 x 46mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	726
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-726405-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of other lands Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > History of other lands Books > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	0-19-726405-0
Barcode:	9780197264058

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