Tobacco Lords. A study of the tobacco merchants of Glasgow and their trading activities, c1740-1790
Details:
- Author(s) Devine, Thomas M
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1975
- Pages 209pp; illus
- Publisher John Donald Publishers
- Place Published Edinburgh
Topics:
- Name Geopolitical event, natural disaster, etc, impact on business inc end of empire, war, disease, catastrophe, etc, exc industrial conflict
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
See the writer's doctoral thesis 'Glasgow Merchants in Colonial Trade, 1770-1815', Strathclyde, 1972. Deals with the transatlantic tobacco trade, trading methods and the Glasgow merchant families that dominated it. Analyses the impact on the trade of the War of American Independence