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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. List of Abbreviations xv
6. Introduction
7. An Era of Revolutions 1
8. The Port City of Bristol 11
9. The Records 15
10. Chapter Outline 20
11. 1 The Rise of the Atlantic Economy
12. Introduction 24
13. Bristol’s ‘Lowest Ebb’? 26
14. The Quest for Luxury Imports? 36
15. Export-Driven Growth 44
16. Conclusions 54
17. 2 Ireland: Beyond ‘the First “Colonial” Trade’
18. Introduction 56
19. Expansion of Irish Trade 58
20. Imports from Ireland – A Colonial Economy? 63
21. Exports to Ireland – A Consumer Revolution 69
22. Broadening Horizons: Regional Distribution of Bristol’s Irish Trade 72
23. The Transatlantic Provisions Trade 74
24. Conclusions 77
25. 3 A ‘Quest’ for New Markets?
26. Introduction 79
27. America 82
28. The Mediterranean 91
29. Africa 97
30. Other Markets 101
31. Conclusions 103
32. 4 Bristol’s ‘American Revolution’: Tobacco and Sugar
33. Introduction 105
34. Americanisation of Trade 107
35. Expansion of Trade 112
36. Nature of Trade 117
37. Impacts 126
38. Causes 129
39. England’s ‘American Revolution’? 133
40. Conclusions 137
41. 5 Exports
42. Introduction 138
43. The Range of Exported Goods 140
44. Sources of Goods 144
45. Goods for the Colonies 154
46. European Trade 157
47. Conclusions 167
48. 6 Servants and Enslaved People
49. Introduction 169
50. Indentured Servants 173
51. The Slave Trade 183
52. Conclusions 199
53. Conclusion 201
54. Technical Appendix
55. Inputting the Data 209
56. Weights and Measures 211
57. Valuing Goods 212
58. Inflation and Adjustment 215
59. Illicit and Invisible Trade 224
60. Bibliography 230
61. Index 242