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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521308453
ISBN-13
9780521308458
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2134483
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Traders, Planters and Slaves : Market Behavior in Early English America
Publication Year
1986
Subject
United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
17.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
85-014890
Dewey Edition
19
Reviews
'Galenson's book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on economic institutions. Using a blend of cliometric techniques and institutional analyses, he mines the economic and demographic data in the records of the Royal African Company to reconstruct the organization of the seventeenth-century slave trade. The result is a detailed demonstration that this trade took place in a highly organized and sophisticated market. The book will be of interest not just to economic historians of slavery, but to everyone interested in the evolution of modern economic organization and exchange.' Douglass C. North, Washington University, 'Traders, Planters, and Slaves analyzes nearly 75,000 transactions of the Royal African Company to explore the operations of the slave trade, the economy of the sugar islands, and the efficiency of markets in early modern history. It illuminates all three subjects and is essential reading for students of the Atlantic world during the colonial era. In the best tradition of cliometrics, Galenson combines a historian's careful reading of archival material with an economist's theoretical precision to produce a model of social science history.'Russell R. Menard, University of Minnesota, 'Galenson's book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on economic institutions. Using a blend of cliometric techniques and institutional analyses, he mines the economic and demographic data in the records of the Royal African Company to reconstruct the organization of the seventeenth-century slave trade. The result is a detailed demonstration that this trade took place in a highly organized and sophisticated market. The book will be of interest not just to economic historians of slavery, but to everyone interested in the evolution of modern economic organization and exchange.'Douglass C. North, Washington University, 'Traders, Planters, and Slaves analyzes nearly 75,000 transactions of the Royal African Company to explore the operations of the slave trade, the economy of the sugar islands, and the efficiency of markets in early modern history. It illuminates all three subjects and is essential reading for students of the Atlantic world during the colonial era. In the best tradition of cliometrics, Galenson combines a historian's careful reading of archival material with an economist's theoretical precision to produce a model of social science history.' Russell R. Menard, University of Minnesota
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
380.1/44/09729
Table Of Content
List of tables; Preface; 1. The Atlantic slave trade and the early development of the English West Indies; 2. Shipping and mortality; 3. Slave prices in the Barbados market, 1673-1723; 4. On the order of purchases by characteristics at slave sales; 5. The demographic composition of the slave trade: an economic investigation; 6. Establishing geographic persistence from market observations: population turnover among estate owners and managers in Barbados and Jamaica, 1673-1725; 7. The economic structure of the early Atlantic slave trade: the challenge of Adam Smith's analysis; Appendices; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.
Synopsis
This book explores the operation of the Atlantic slave trade industry in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, focusing on the market behaviour of the Royal African Company - the largest English company engaged in the slave trade - and the sugar planters of the Caribbean., The explosive growth of the Atlantic slave trade in the second half of the seventeenth century made the international trade in Africans one of the world's largest industries. This book explores the operation of that industry in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, focusing on the market behaviour of the Royal African Company - the largest English company engaged in the slave trade - and the sugar planters of the Caribbean, who were the trade's principal customers in English America. A richly detailed portrayal of the slave trade to English America emerges, one that shows it to have been a highly competitive and efficient transatlantic market. In revealing the existence of sophisticated and complex market behaviour in this early period of black slavery in the New World, the book adds to our understanding of the development of large-scale competitive markets, as well as to our knowledge of the efficiency of resource allocation in early English America.
LC Classification Number
HT1092 .G35 1986
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- b***r (958)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThe item arrived quickly... it was new as described by the seller, however the photo showed it with a slipcover and it did not arrive with on. The seller was glad to accept a return and refund me the total. I would definitely do business with them again in the future.
- r***e (665)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchasePrompt shipment, and the book arrived quickly. Better packaging materials could have been used, as it was shipped in a poly mailer sealed tight with zero padding to protect again bumps/damage, but the book arrived in acceptable condition. The description was vague, and it's not worth trying to send back. I'll still keep/use the books as is. Thanks.Seeing Things John's Way: The Rhetoric of the Book of Revelation (#186900309708)
- k***6 (2)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseItem arrived in perfect condition. Seller shipped it out fast and it was delivered within the week (in the United States). It was very well packaged and worth the money. Would 100% recommend this seller!