Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, 1756-57
Subtitle: merchants of New York and Belfast
By: edited by Thomas M. Truxes.
Contributors: Truxes, Thomas M.; British Academy.
Series: Records of social and economic history ;; new ser., 28
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: Greg, Thomas -- Correspondence.; Cunningham, Waddel -- Correspondence.; Greg & Cunningham (Firm).; Merchants -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 18th century.; Merchants -- Ireland -- Belfast -- History -- 18th century.; United States -- Commerce -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century.; Ireland -- Commerce -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Genres: Correspondence.
Description: "The correspondence from Greg & Cunningham, the most successful Irish-American trading firm of the colonial period, forms a remarkable archive for economic historians of the eighteenth century." "This is an edition of a letterbook that contains the first nine months of correspondence from this New York trading house. The letters to commercial contacts throughout the North Atlantic region offer a vivid picture of the transatlantic economy. And the private communications of Waddell Cunningham to his partner, Thomas Greg in Belfast, allow a rare behind-the-scenes look at the management and operation of an overseas merchant house."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Published in association with the British Academy.