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Each year ever more scholarly writing casts itself as “Atlantic history.”. In the past two decades published studies of migration flows, labor systems, intellectual influences and adaptations, and commercial exchanges have uncovered a hitherto neglected early modern Atlantic world.
The 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 basin—comprising parts of Europe, West Africa, and the Americas—during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In thirteen essays, the contributors ...
24 kwi 2023 · Contains chapters devoted to slave trading, trade and commodities, and the economic impact of the Atlantic world; economic information and analysis are also included in articles focused on imperial and social topics.
As a result of simultaneously convergent and contrary developments a normalizing Atlantic consumer economy and distinctive consumer subeconomies founded on region, status, wealth, and gender emerged hand in hand during the eighteenth century.”.
A wildly popular product in 18th-century Britain and its colonies, sugar was used to sweeten hot beverages and make rum and molasses. On plantations in the Caribbean, enslaved Africans worked up to 18-hour days in dangerous conditions to harvest and purify sugar cane.
The development of the Atlantic economy in the eighteenth centuries allowed American colonists access to more British goods than ever before. The buying habits of both commoners and the rising colonial gentry fueled the consumer revolution, creating even stronger ties with Great Britain by means of a shared community of taste and ideas.
The economic prominence of the “Atlantic System” seems even more important when we take into account that during the second half of the 18 th century Great Britain had the greatest stake in the Atlantic economy and at the same time became the Atlantic's first industrial nation.
