Eighteenth Century Trade Research Papers (original) (raw)

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- Economics, Eighteenth Century Trade, Global History, Merchants

This research investigates how the Dale Company of Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, founded by Abraham Darby I in 1708, distributed the ironware that it made.The research revealed several interesting things about the distribution methods used by The Dale Company. The firm was found to have used three different types of river carriers. It made very limited use of wagons for delivery of goods and over the time period studied there was a marked decline in overall use of road carriage. The company also was shown to move away from small customers towards larger firms and to have a monthly ordering pattern for goods that remained largely uninfluenced by its biggest customer and had similar peaks and troughs in all three years

- by Timothy Davies
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- Economics, Eighteenth Century Trade, Global History, Merchants

Our research is about the trade in material goods from Asia to Europe over this period, and its impact on Europe’s consumer and industrial cultures. It entails a comparative study of Europe’s East India Companies and the private trade from Asia over the period. The commodities trade was heavily dependent on private trade. The historiography to date has left a blind spot in this area, concentrating instead on corruption and malfeasance. Taking a global history approach we investigate the trade in specific consumer goods in many qualities and varieties that linked merchant communities and stimulated information flows. We set out how private trade functioned alongside and in connection with the various European East India companies; we investigate how this changed over time, how it drew on the Company infrastructure, and how it took the risks and developed new and niche markets for specific Asian commodities that the Companies could not sustain.

- by Timothy Davies and +3
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- Eighteenth Century Trade, Global History, Merchants, East India Company

In the first book-length examination of the connections between the commercial fishing industry in colonial America and the American Revolution, Christopher Magra places the origins and progress of this formative event in a wider Atlantic context. The Fisherman's Cause utilizes extensive research from archives in the United States, Canada, and the U.K. in order to take this Atlantic approach. Dried, salted cod represented the most lucrative export in New England. The fishing industry connected colonial producers to transatlantic markets in the Iberian Peninsula and the West Indies. Parliament's coercive regulation of this branch of colonial maritime commerce contributed to colonists' willingness to engage in a variety of revolutionary activities. Colonists then used the sea to forcibly resist British authority. Fish merchants converted transatlantic trade routes into military supply lines, and they transformed fishing vessels into warships. Fishermen armed and manned the first American navy, served in the first coast guard units, and fought on privateers. These maritime activities helped secure American independence.

- by Christopher P Magra
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- Management, History, American History, European History