Book DescriptionThe Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries is a collection of essays focusing on the expansion, elaboration, and increasing integration of the economy of the Atlantic basincomprising parts of Europe, West Africa, and the Americasduring the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries In thirteen ожзеъ essays, the contributors examine the complex and variegated processes by which markets were created in the Atlantic basin and how they became integrated While a number of the contributors focus on the economic history of a specific European imperial system, others, mirroring the realities of the world they are writing about, transcend imperial boundaries and investigate topics shared throughout the region In the latter case, the contributors focus either on processes occurring along the margins or interstices of empires, or on "breaches" in the colonial systems established by various European powers Taken together, the essays shed much-needed light on the organization and operation of both the European imperial orders of the early modern era and the increasingly integrated economy of the Atlantic basin challenging these orders over the course of the same period CONTRIBUTORS Kenneth J Banks Jan de Vries Robert S DuPlessis S Max Edelson David Hancock April Lee Hatfield Laura Croghan Kamoie Peter C Mancall R C Nash Laura Náter Ty M Reese Joshua L Rosenbloom Claudia Schnurmann Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert Thomas Weiss.  Banzhaf2005 г ISBN 1570035547.