The First London Dock Boom and the Growth of the West India Docks

Stern, Walter M.

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“…Canals completed or in progress by the mid-1790s adequately furnished Britain with this form of transport, at least in terms of arterial routes, and railways were well in the future even in 1815." From the evidence of turnpike acts road improvement seems if anything to have been stimulated by war conditions [8, p. 71], and despite increasing trade in the eighteenth century the first dock boom was coincident with the great French naval challenge [35]. In manufacturing industries, subject then even more than now to uncertain costs and returns, the rate of interest as a cost was probably of minor importance in entrepreneurial decision making.…”

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Aspects of The Effect on the British Economy of the Wars Against France, 1793–18151

Anderson

1972

Aust Econ Hist Rev

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Aspects of The Effect on the British Economy of the Wars Against France, 1793–18151

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1972

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“…In 1700 there were only ten acres of wet docks in Britain but this had increased to eighty acres by 1800 and four hundred by 1830, led mainly by chartered corporations (Swann, 1960;Kenwood, 1971). The West India Docks Company noted above, for instance, raised over a million pounds for building the new docks in London, while Bristol and Liverpool set up corporations in this period which spent £600,000 apiece on new harbours (Broadbank, 1921;Stern, 1952;Draper, 2008;Nelson, 2016, pp. 235-67;Williams, 1962).…”

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Slavery, capitalism, incorporation and the Close Harbour Company of Jamaica, circa 1800

Graham

2019

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Slavery, capitalism, incorporation and the Close Harbour Company of Jamaica, circa 1800 Levels of incorporation of joint-stock companies were far lower between 1790 and 1860 than in the American South, let alone New England and the British Isles, suggesting that slavery had a direct and proportional impact on patterns of incorporation and wider economic development. Examining the foundation of the Close Harbour Company of Jamaica between 1795 and 1803, the first joint-stock company chartered by a colonial legislature in the British West Indies, shows that potential entrepreneurs did not face legal or political obstacles, but rather a range of exogenous and endogenous economic factors arising in part from the conditions of a slave society which discouraged company formation. The effect may have been to exacerbate existing levels of economic backwardness in these islands by cutting off the supplies of capital needed for modernisation, thereby contributing to their underdevelopment.

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Caveat Emptor: Abolishing Public Measurements, Standardizing Quantities, and Enhancing Market Transparency in the London Coal Trade c1830

Velkar¹

2008

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This article evaluates efforts to standardize quantities in the London coal trade c1830, and traces the end of the public measurement system first introduced in the fourteenth century. Increasing traffic in coal, reduction of taxes on the commodity, inefficient public meters, etc., contributed to the demise of public measurements. This outcome was the result of extensive negotiations between merchants, the various levels of state bureaucracy, and the parliament. Switching measurement standards was difficult, if not costly, to coordinate. Abolishing public measurements and switching from volume to weight measurements was part of the efforts to strengthen governance along the commodity chain, secure property rights by making quantities predictable and alter a mechanism that powerful merchants considered had become inappropriate.

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The First London Dock Boom and the Growth of the West India Docks

Cited by 11 publications

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Aspects of The Effect on the British Economy of the Wars Against France, 1793–18151

Aspects of The Effect on the British Economy of the Wars Against France, 1793–18151

Slavery, capitalism, incorporation and the Close Harbour Company of Jamaica, circa 1800

Caveat Emptor: Abolishing Public Measurements, Standardizing Quantities, and Enhancing Market Transparency in the London Coal Trade c1830

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