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The external economy of British North America has attracted
considerable scholarly attention in the last two generations, and
the papers reprinted here, in this second collection from Jacob
Price, make important contributions to quantification,
conceptualisation and debate. Studies presenting and analysing new
statistical material from the English and Scottish customs accounts
are supplemented by a general survey of the transatlantic economy
in the 18th century which is required reading for all students of
the subject. Price's treatment is diversified into financial
arrangements and the role of credit in the slave trade and
plantation economies. In a provocative chapter "Who cared about the
colonies?", concern in Britain for the 13 colonies between 1714 and
1775 is explored in terms of the ability of the colonies to involve
the interests and command the attention and concern of people in
Britain from the politically eminent to those in trade and to the
nation at large.
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