Merchants and Empire

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1(12) Part I: Engagements with Economic Freedom Establishing a Port, 1620--1664 13(23) Where Returns Were the Richest: The Transatlantic Trade, 1664--1700 36(37) ``Where There is the Least Hindrance'': The West Indian and Coastal Trade, 1664--1700 73(19) Creating a Regional Economy, 1664--1700 92(29) Part II: Encounters with Imperial Maturity The Spur of Success: Ideology and Experience in Transatlantic Trade, 1700--1760 121(49) The Prospects for Satisfying Appetite: The Transforming Qualities of West Indian and Coastal Trade, 1700--1760 170(45) The Promise of the Domestic Economy: Expanding Internal Trade and City Manufacturing, 1700--1760 215(50) The Vagaries of War and Depression, 1754--1770 265(48) Conclusion 313(6) Appendix A: Tables and Graphs 319(9) Appendix B: Bills of Exchange 328(3) Notes 331(108) Essay on Sources 439(4) Index 443