Shipping Patterns and the Atlantic Trade of Bristol, 1749-1770
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3288024 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth Morgan (0000-0003-0326-6042, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 506 |
| Publication date | 1989-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1922354 |
| OpenAlex | W2325780251 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
HIPPING was lifeblood of Atlantic economy in eighteenth century; shipping patterns were arteries through which merchants and commodities of North Atlantic trading world were drawn together into an international commercial network. Ships making transatlantic voyages from British ports picked up northeast trade winds around latitude of Madeira and sailed three thousand miles to their destinations. This was first leg of a passage that involved unloading and reloading cargoes, time spent in colonial waters, a complex shipping schedule, and possibly multilateral trading connections before vessels caught prevailing southwesterlies near Newfoundland back to Europe.1 This long haul on the busiest ocean highway in world in
Geography · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2014 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |