Merchants and Planters

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Comprises four chapters having been delivered in their original form as lectures in the mid 1950s. They comprise 'Founders of colonies'; 'The plantations'; 'Colonial trade'; 'Debtors and creditors'. Explores in particular 17th century investment by merchants in tobacco in North America and sugar in West Indies. An Economic History Review Supplement