'Mercantile connections' in D J Hamilton, Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750-1820

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Author(s) Hamilton, Douglas J
Publication type Periodical article
Year published 2005
Pages pp84-111
Publisher Manchester University Press
Place Published Manchester

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Deals with Scottish mercantile links with the West Indies through the experiences of the merchants Alexander Houstoun & Co of Glasgow and the Baillie family, England based but with strong Scottish connections and including Evan Baillie & Co and James Baillie & Co. Both were international merchants enjoying strong kinship networks in the Atlantic economy. Has sections: 'Transnational networks'; 'A world of exchanges'; 'Crises'