From: Rakesh Bhandari (rakeshb@stanford.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 25 2002 - 12:39:58 EDT
Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England : A Study in
International Trade and Economic Development
by Joseph E. Inikori (Author)
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* Paperback: 528 pages
* Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt); ISBN: 0521010799; (June 2002)
* In-Print Editions: Hardcover
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: 2,028,576
Book Description
Drawing on classical development theory and recent theoretical
advances on the connection between expanding markets and
technological developments, this book reveals the critical role of
the expansion of Atlantic commerce in the successful completion of
England's industrialization from 1650-1850. The volume is the first
detailed study of the role of overseas trade in the Industrial
Revolution. It revises other explanations that have recently
dominated the field and shifts the assessment of African contribution
away from the debate on profits.
Arguing that private enterprise, market-based models of
industrialization are only possible with an intensive involvement in
international trade, Inikori (history, U. of Rochester) links the
industrialization process in England (specifically, the completion of
the mechanization of cotton textiles) to the role of the African
Diaspora in the production of cotton as a commodity in the Americas.
He argues that Atlantic trade was the central driving force behind
England's industrialization and that this would not have been
possible without the forced labor of African commodity production.
The economies of scale of slave labor allowed prices on trade to be
kept low enough that textile products were brought within reach of
all of England's social classes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,
Portland, OR (booknews.com)
FROM THE BOOK
Table of Contents
List of Tables
Preface
Ch. 1 Introduction 1
Ch. 2 The English Economy in the Longue Duree 19
Ch. 3 A Historiography of the First Industrial Revolution 89
Ch, 4 Slave-Based Commodity Production and the Growth of Atlantic Commerce 156
Ch. 5 Britain and the Supply of African Slave Labor to the Americas 215
Ch. 6 The Atlantic Slave Economy and English Shipping 265
Ch. 7 The Atlantic Slave Economy and the Development of Financial
Institutions 314
Ch. 8 African-Produced Raw Materials and Industrial Production in England 362
Ch. 9 Atlantic Markets and the Development of the Major Manufacturing
Sector in England's Industrialization 405
Ch. 10 Conclusion 473
App Average Annual Estimates of Bullion Import into Europe from the
Americas, 1501-1800 487
App Brazilian Sugar Export, 1536-1822 (thousands of pounds sterling) 488
App Average Annual Value and Commodity Composition of Exports from
British America to Britain 489
App Mean Slave Loading by Ships Cleared out to Africa from Ports in England 490
App Vessels Reported Lost but not Found on the Lists of Vessels
Cleared out to Africa from Ports in England, 1796-1805 491
App Routes of Vessels Insured to Africa by William Braund, 1759-1772 493
App Guineamen Identified in Liverpool (Prime) Registries 1786, 1787, 1788 495
App Transcripts from the Balance Books of Arthur Heywood, Sons & Co.,
of Liverpool, Showing the Structure of the Bank's Assets and
Liabilities, 1787-1790 and 1801-1807 507
App Insurance Premiums Paid on African Ventures 510
App Shares of English and Foreign Products in Manufactures Exported
from England to Western Africa, 1658-1856 512
App Shares of English and Foreign Products in Manufactures Exported
from England to the Americas, 1701-1856 514
App Shares of English and Foreign Products in Manufactures Exported
from England to Southern Europe, 1699-1856 514
App Commodity Composition of Foreign Products Exported from England
to Western Africa, 1658-1693 (in percentages) 515
App Commodity Composition of Foreign Products Exported from England
to Western Africa, 1699-1856 (in percentages) 516
App Commodity Composition of Foreign Products Exported from England
to the Americas, 1699-1856 (in percentages) 517
App Commodity Composition of Foreign Products Exported from England
to Southern Europe, 1699-1856 (in percentages) 517
App Commodity Composition of British Products Exported from England
to Western Africa, 1658-1693 (in percentages) 518
App Commodity Composition of British Products Exported from England
to Western Africa, 1699-1856 (in percentages) 519
App Commodity Composition of British Products Exported from England
to the Americas, 1699-1856 (in percentages) 520
App Commodity Composition of British Products Exported from England
to the West Indies, 1783-1856 (in thousands of pounds) 521
App Commodity Composition of British Products Exported from England
to Southern Europe, 1699-1856 (in thousands of pounds) 522
App Shares of Portugal and Spain in Total Exports (Domestic and
Re-exports) from England to Southern Europe, 1701-1800 523
Bibliography 525
Index 551
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