Shipping, trade and commerce : essays in memory of Ralph Davis / edited by P.L. Cottrell and D.H. Aldcroft
1981, 1st edition. [Leicester] : Leicester University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #321894
Physical description: viii, 200 pages: 1 portrait; 24 cm. Notes: "Ralph Davis, a bibliography of his work": pages 7-8. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: The economics of uncertainty: the structural revolution in the spice trade, 1480-1640 / Peter Musgrave -- Lisbon, its English merchant community and the Mediterranean in the eighteenth century / H.E.S. Fisher -- The "New economic history" and the business records of the East India Company / K.N. Chaudhuri -- The sources of England's wealth / F. Crouzet -- North European timber exports to Great Britain, 1760-1810 / Sven-Erik A Åstro öm -- Customs evasion, colonial preference, and the British tariff, 1829-42 / David M. Williams -- Scottish shipping, 1775-1805 / Gordon Jackson -- The steamship on the Mersey, 1815-80 / P.L. Cottrell -- William Gray & Company / Robert Craig. Subjects: Davis, Ralph 1915-. Tariff Great Britain History. Shipping Great Britain History. Handel. Shipping Essays. Shipping Great Britain History Addresses, essays, lectures. Great Britain Commerce History.
Genre: Bibliography. History. Illustrated.
Price: €35.00