'Sugar Refining in Bristol' in K Bruland & P O'Brien (eds), From Family Firms to Corporate Capitalism. Essays in business and industrial history in honour of Peter Mathias

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Author(s) Morgan, Kenneth
Publication type Chapter
Year published 1998
Pages pp139-69
Publisher Clarendon Press
Place Published Oxford

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Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Describes and analyses in a chronological order the neglected history of Bristol's important sugar refining industry from the 17th to the 19th century with regard to the nature of the industry and individual sugar houses, its important links to imperial trade, and the business and industrial fluctuations it experienced. Provides a schedule of selected sugar refining partnerships