The Growth of English Overseas Trade in the 17th and 18th centuries. Cet article n’est pas disponible.The Growth of English Overseas Trade in the 17th and 18th centuries

THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. The growth of foreign trade between 1600 and 1775 brought about a commercial revolution in England. English ships, no longer convery goodd to European waters, established trade routes far overseas. English merchants developed the exchange of home-manufactured goods, particularly woolen textiles and iron, for primary products like tobacco, sugar, cotton and dye-stuffs, and for silk and other luxuries. A notable feature of these years was the American orientation of English overseas trade. At the same time the control of trade passed into the hands of English merchants, both as private traders and as members of chartered companies. This expansion of commerce, which was most rapid in the later seventeenth century and again between 1750 and 1775, made a decisive contribution to national economic growth. Its implications for the economy as a whole and the process of industrialisation are reviewed at length in Professor Minchinton's introduction. Slight damage to dust jacket, page edges dirty, inner pages in good condition.…