Scottish Trade with German Ports 1700-1770 : A Sketch of the North Sea Trades and the Atlantic Economy on Ground Level (Studien zur Gewerbe- und Handelsgeschichte der vorindustriellen Zeit)

The monograph contributes to the field of eighteenth-century comparative European history. Based mainly on British and German customs accounts, it is a bilateral case study of the basic working mechanisms within a much larger framework the eighteenth-century Atlantic economy. The Scottish customs records are unique, insofar as they allow precise reconstructions of Scotland s trade volume in yearly series after 1743, which can be broken down by singular countries/commodities. As the Scottish-German trade pattern linked back into the Atlantic framework, it is hoped that the present model study will encourage further research into cross-country studies of North Sea and Atlantic trade the most dynamic branch of European commerce post-1700.