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The Capital and the Colonies

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Between 1660 and 1700, London established itself as the capital and commercial hub of a thriving Atlantic empire, accounting for three quarters of the nation's colonial trade, and playing a vital coordinating role in an increasingly coherent Atlantic system. Nuala Zahedieh's unique study provides the first detailed picture of how that mercantile system was made to work. By identifying the leading colonial merchants, she shows through their collective experiences how London developed the capabilities to compete with its continental rivals and ensure compliance with the Navigation Acts. Zahedieh shows that in making mercantilism work, Londoners helped to create the conditions which underpinned the long period of structural change and economic growth which culminated in the Industrial Revolution.

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  • Zahedieh,Nuala, 2010. "The Capital and the Colonies," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521514231, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:cbooks:9780521514231
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    1. Nuala Zahedieh, 2013. "Colonies, copper, and the market for inventive activity in England and Wales, 1680–1730," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 66(3), pages 805-825, August.
    2. Sissoko, Carolyn & Ishizu, Mina, 2021. "How the West India trade fostered last resort lending by the Bank of England," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 108565, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    3. Sahle, Esther, 2014. "Quakers, coercion and pre-modern growth: why friends’ formal institutions for contract enforcement did not matter for early Atlantic trade expansion," Economic History Working Papers 60452, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    4. Esther Sahle, 2018. "Quakers, coercion, and pre†modern growth: why Friends’ formal institutions for contract enforcement did not matter for early modern trade expansion," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 71(2), pages 418-436, May.
    5. D'Maris Coffman & Judy Z. Stephenson & Nathan Sussman, 2022. "Financing the rebuilding of the City of London after the Great Fire of 1666," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 75(4), pages 1120-1150, November.
    6. Jeroen Puttevils, 2015. "‘Eating the bread out of their mouth’: Antwerp's export trade and generalized institutions, 1544–5," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 68(4), pages 1339-1364, November.
    7. Nuala Zahedieh, 2021. "Eric Williams and William Forbes: copper, colonial markets, and commercial capitalism," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 74(3), pages 784-808, August.
    8. Sissoko, Carolyn & Ishizu, Mina, 2021. "How the West India trade fostered last resort lending by the Bank of England," Economic History Working Papers 108565, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    9. Onur Ulas Ince, 2016. "Friedrich List and the Imperial origins of the national economy," New Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(4), pages 380-400, July.
    10. Phil Withington, 2020. "Intoxicants and the invention of ‘consumption’," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 73(2), pages 384-408, May.

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