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Contents: Volume I: Introduction; General trade: Structure and magnitude of the colonial economic interdependencies (1500-1750): a world trade in development, Teodoro Hampe-Martinez; Colonies as mercantile investments: the Luso-Brazilian empire, 1500-1808, José Jobson de Andrade Arruda; The imperial response to ’free trade’: Spanish imports from Spanish America, 1778-1796, John Fisher; English foreign trade, 1660-1700, Ralph Davis; English foreign trade, 1700-1774, Ralph Davis; Irish Atlantic trade in the 17th and 18th centuries, R. C. Nash; Traditions and changes in French Atlantic trade between 1780 and 1830, P. Butel; Trade between western Africa and the Atlantic world in the pre-colonial era, David Eltis and Lawrence C. Jennings; Political economy: Dutch-Spanish rivalry in the Caribbean area, 1594-1609, Engel Sluiter; Power, corruption, and commerce: the making of the local administrative structure in 17th-century Buenos Aires, Zacarías Moutoukias; Doing business in the smuggling way: Yankee contraband in the Rio de la Plata, Jerry W. Cooney; Oceanic commerce and Platine merchants, 1796-1806: the challenge of war, Jerry W. Cooney; The American Revolution and the British West Indies’ economy, Selwyn H. H. Carrington. Volume II: Specific commodities: Rice: South Carolina and the Atlantic economy in the late 17th and 18th centuries, R.C. Nash; The colonial rice trade, Henry C. Dethloff; Molasses: The colonial molasses trade, Gilman M. Ostrander; Tobacco: The Portuguese tobacco trade and tobacco growers of Bahia in the late colonial period, Catherine Lugar; The economic growth of the Chesapeake and the European market, 1697-1775, Jacob M. Price; Cochineal: Cochineal production and trade in New Spain to 1600, Raymond L. Lee; Logwood: The logwood trade in the 17th and 18th centuries, Arthur M. Wilson; Cacao: The cacao economy of the 18th-century province of Caracas and the Spanish cacao market, Eugenio Piñero; Hides: Rio Grande do Sul