The Caribbean and the Atlantic World Economy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Experiments in Modernity: the Making of the Atlantic World Economy

   • A. B. Leonard, David Pretel

   Pages 1-14

3. From Seas to Ocean: Interpreting the Shift from the North Sea-Baltic World to the Atlantic, 1650–1800

   • David Ormrod

   Pages 15-35

4. On the Rocks: a New Approach to Atlantic World Trade, 1520–1890

   • Chuck Meide

   Pages 36-67

5. Commerce and Conflict: Jamaica and the War of the Spanish Succession

   • Nuala Zahedieh

   Pages 68-86

6. Baltimore and the French Atlantic: Empires, Commerce, and Identity in a Revolutionary Age, 1783–1798

   • Manuel Covo

   Pages 87-107

7. Modernity and the Demise of the Dutch Atlantic, 1650–1914

   • Gert Oostindie

   Pages 108-136

8. From Local to Transatlantic: Insuring Trade in the Caribbean

   • A. B. Leonard

   Pages 137-160

9. Slavery, the British Atlantic Economy, and the Industrial Revolution

   • Knick Harley

   Pages 161-183

10. Commodity Frontiers, Spatial Economy, and Technological Innovation in the Caribbean Sugar Industry, 1783–1878

    • Dale Tomich

    Pages 184-216

11. From Periphery to Centre: Transatlantic Capital Flows, 1830–1890

    • Martín Rodrigo y Alharilla

    Pages 217-237

12. Baring Brothers and the Cuban Plantation Economy, 1814–1870

    • Inés Roldán de Montaud

    Pages 238-262

13. Circuits of Knowledge: Foreign Technology and Transnational Expertise in Nineteenth-century Cuba

    • David Pretel, Nadia Fernández-de-Pinedo

    Pages 263-289

14. Afterword: Mercantilism and the Caribbean Atlantic World Economy

    • Martin Daunton

    Pages 290-304

15. Back Matter

    Pages 305-319

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This collection of essays explores the inter-imperial connections between British, Spanish, Dutch, and French Caribbean colonies, and the 'Old World' countries which founded them. Grounded in primary archival research, the thirteen contributors focus on the ways that participants in the Atlantic World economy transcended imperial boundaries.

• Caribbean
• empire
• industrial revolution
• Martí
• revolution
• trade

• Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge, UK

  A. B. Leonard

• Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

  David Pretel

David Pretel is Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Economic History at University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, where he lectures in the history of economic thought. Previously he was Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow in History at European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He specialises in economic history, historical political economy, and the history of technology.

Adrian Leonard is Post-doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge, UK. He has written widely on topics related to marine insurance and the Atlantic World. He is co-editor of the series The Atlantic World 1400-1850 (2014), and of Questioning Credible Commitment (2013).