St Peter Port, 1680-1830: The History of an International EntrepôtBoydell & Brewer, 1999 - 247 Seiten Gregory Stevens Cox's immensely readable and meticulously researched history of St Peter Port in the eighteenth century provides a fascinating account of the town's place in the trading world of the Atlantic. He shows that it was trade, not privateering, which led to the growth of the town; and he shows how it was transformed from a `French' to an `English' community. He brings the town and its inhabitants alive, in all their various activities of work, family and sociability. MARTIN DAUNTON, Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge For over a century St Peter Port, Guernsey, functioned as an international entrept, handling millions of gallons of alcohol and large quantities of tobacco. This study examines the volume and value of the port trade. But this is more than a simple study of the port. Using a variety of analytic techniques the author considers the impact of the entrept trade on the demographic, cultural and social structures of St Peter Port. He shows the consequences of migration and how a small, poor `French' town of some three thousand inhabitants was transformed into a wealthy `English' town with a population some five times greater. Dr GREGORY STEVENS COX is head of history, Blanchelande Girls' College, St Peter Port. |
Inhalt
Chapter One The Background | 1 |
1 | 6 |
St Peter Port | 11 |
Chapter TwoForeign Trade | 17 |
The St Peter Port entrepôt at its zenith | 23 |
2 | 24 |
Tobacco | 31 |
5 | 34 |
The social and economic impact of migration in the early 19th century | 91 |
1 | 97 |
2 | 103 |
6 | 104 |
Changing residential patterns 17271800 | 108 |
3 | 109 |
1 | 121 |
Cultural differentation | 123 |
7 | 37 |
Trade with Ireland | 38 |
Privateering | 44 |
Chapter Three The Internal Economy of the Town | 50 |
1 | 53 |
The impact of the entrepôt | 57 |
Chapter Four Demography | 64 |
1 | 66 |
3 | 68 |
2 | 70 |
Crisis mortality | 71 |
Food provision and subsistence crises | 75 |
Conclusion | 77 |
1 | 83 |
Urban improvement c 1800c 1831 | 136 |
Victorian Epilogue | 139 |
Tobacco | 152 |
British government estimates of spirits and tobacco | 153 |
Details of the Guernsey vessels arriving in Rio de Janeiro | 159 |
Guernsey militia returns 1621 1656 1680 | 165 |
Pie charts to illustrate the population composition | 171 |
Vessels built in Guernsey 181227 | 178 |
Residential patterns and wealth by vingtaine 1800 | 182 |
Maps | 189 |
Notes | 199 |
Bibliography | 218 |
Index nominum Index locorum Index rerum | 233 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
A. G. Jamieson Appendix Atlantic economy barrières BL Add Bordeaux Borsay brandy Bristol British built Cambridge Carey cargoes Castle Cornet Channel Islands colonial country parishes cultural CUST Dobrée E. A. Wrigley early eighteenth century early nineteenth century eighteenth century élite England English towns entrepôt trade exported families France French gallons garrison Gazette de Guernesey Greffe growth Guernsey Guernsey Guernsey London Guernsey merchants Guille harbour Hauteville Havilland History of Guernsey hogsheads houses Huguenots hundred quarters immigrants imported industry inhabitants Island of Guernsey Jersey John jurats labour late eighteenth century livres tournois Lodge Lukis male mediaeval Mesurier migrants Nantes négociants Ordonnances Peter Port merchants Piéces idem Pierre pipes Pollet poor population Priaulx privateering quantities Royal Court Sale Sausmarez second half seventeenth century shipped Sieur smuggling social Southampton St Malo St Peter Port St Sampson tax assessments taxpayers thousand tobacco TSG vol urban economy vingtaines wealth wine