Shipping, trade and commerce
Subtitle: essays in memory of Ralph Davis
By: edited by P.L. Cottrell and D.H. Aldcroft.
Contributors: Davis, Ralph, 1915-; Cottrell, P. L., 1944-; Aldcroft, Derek Howard.
Publisher: Leicester University Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: [Leicester]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Davis, Ralph, 1915-; Tariff -- Great Britain -- History.; Shipping -- Great Britain -- History.; Great Britain -- Commerce -- History.
Notes: "Ralph Davis, a bibliography of his work": p. [7]-8.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The economics of uncertainty : the structural revolution in the spice trade, 1480-1640 / Peter Musgrave; title: Lisbon, its English merchant community and the Mediterranean in the eighteenth century / H.E.S. Fisher; title: The "New economic history" and the business records of the East India Company / K.N. Chaudhuri; title: The sources of England's wealth / F. Crouzet; title: North European timber exports to Great Britain, 1760-1810 / Sven-Erik Åström; title: Customs evasion, colonial preference, and the British tariff, 1829-42 / David M. Williams; title: Scottish shipping, 1775-1805 / Gordon Jackson; title: The steamship on the Mersey, 1815-80 / P.L. Cottrell; title: William Gray & Company / Robert Craig.