The development of the British West Indies, 1700-1763
By: Frank Wesley Pitman
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [s.l.] Forgotten Books
Language: eng
Number of pages: 495
Subjects: Commerce; Economic conditions
Description: Appendices, maps and statistical charts contain primary source documents and statistics on trade and sugar industry.
Notes: Originally published in 1917.

Classic reprint.

"In this book, which in its original form was a doctoral dissertation, I have attempted an investigation of industrial and social conditions in the British West Indies."--Pref.

"Bibliographical note": p. [361]-365.
Table of contents: title: 1. British West India society in the eighteenth century.; title: 2. White labor in the sugar islands.; title: 3. The slave trade.; title: 4. Exclusion of small proprietors from Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands.; title: 5. Exclusion of small proprietors from Jamaica.; title: 6. Capital, credit, and currency.; title: 7. Foreign markets for British sugar.; title: 8. Agitation for direct trade between the West Indies and Europe.; title: 9. International trade between British North America and the Foreign West Indies, 1686-1730.; title: 10. International trade between British and foreign colonies in the West Indies, 1699-1730.; title: 11. The Molasses Act, 1730-1733.; title: 12. Illicit commerce, 1733-1748.; title: 13. illicit commerce, 1748-1763.; title: 14. The peace of Paris.