Abstract
Part I. The Crucible of Trade: 1. A larger world 2. Mercantile origins: 'passengers only' Part II. The Management of Trade: 3. Managing from a 'Merchant's public counting house' 4. Shipping and trading in an 'empire of the seas' 5. Planting: 'a great fund of riches and of strength to Great Britain' 6. Slaving: Bance Island's 'general rendezvous' 7. Government contracting: 'a work of Hercules' 8. Financing: 'turning the great wheel of unfathomable commerce round' Part III. Becoming a Gentleman: 9. The urge to improve 10. The way to be rich and respectable Epilogue: mercantile legacies: 'industrious friends'.
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