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Part 1 Portuguese intercontinental commerce: a merchant adventurer inBrazil, Herbert Heaton; the people and the politics of Portuguese Indiaduring the 16th and early-17th centuries, M.N. Pearson. Part 2 Spanishintercontinental trade: Spanish ships and shipping in the 16th and 17thcenturies, Abbott Payson Usher; merchants in 17th-century Mexico City - apreliminary portrait, Louisa Schell Hoberman. Part 3 Dutch intercontinentalcommerce: Dutch and English merchant shipping in the 17th century, VioletBarbour; the Dutch East India Company as an institutional innovation, NielsSteensgaard; the phasis of the Dutch Straatvaart, 1690-1713 - a chapter inthe economic history of the Mediterranean. Part 4 British intercontinentalcommerce: the English East India Company in the 17th and early 18th centuries- a pre-modern multinational organization, K.N. Chaudhuri; Joshua Johnson inLondon, 1771-1775 - credit and commercial organization in the BritishChesapeake trade, Jacob Price. Part 5 The imitation companies: Frenchmercantilism, commercial companies and colonial profitability, Pierre H.Boulle; ownership in East India Company shipping - Prussia, Scandinavia andthe Austrian Netherlands in the 18th century, C. Koninckx; Dutch Bataviatrade via Copenhagen, 1795-1807 - a study in colonial trade and neutrality,Ole Feldbaek. Part 6 The effects of long-distance trade: the colonial tradesand industrial investment in Scotland, c.1700-1815, T.M. Devine; the EastIndia Company and the prosperity of the republic, I.J. Brugmans. Part 7Overseas shipping and the labour market: the people on board, A.C.J.Vermeulen; the East India Company and military recruitment in Britain,1763-1771, Huw V. Bowen. Part 8 Privateering and piracy: corruption andcorsairs in Western India, M.N. Pearson; "A Frugal, Prudential and HopefulTrade": privateering in Jamaica, 1655-89, Nuala Zahedieh.