Presents a collection of essays focusing on the expansion, elaboration, and increasing integration of the economy of the Atlantic basin during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In thirteen essays, the contributors examine the complex processes by which markets were created in the Atlantic basin and how they became integrated.
Taken together, the essays shed much-needed light on the organization and operation of both the European imperial orders of the early modern era and the increasingly integrated economy of the Atlantic basin challenging these orders over the course of the same period.
