Rise of the Altantic Econmies

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Scholarly work. Deals with the economic history of the Western European economies - England, France, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain - and their colonies in North and South America and, inter alia, the influences on their economies of their participation in Atlantic enterprise. Covers the period from the fifteenth century to the War of American Independence. Chapters include: 'The Portuguese in the Atlantic'; 'Western Europe, 1460-1560'; 'Spain in America - the sixteenth century'; 'Western Europe and the Atlantic'; 'The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - population, prices and incomes'; 'Agriculture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries'; 'The peopling of America'; 'Spain in decline'; 'Latin America - the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'; 'The rise of Dutch commercial empire'; 'England - the untroubled island'; 'France - the unsteady giant'; 'Capital, credit and financial institutions'; 'The tropical colonies in America'; 'The British Midland colonies'; 'France and England in the eighteenth century'; 'France and England - industrial growth and industrial revolution'