Baltic Iron in the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century

Chris Evans, Ph.D. (1988) in History, University of London, teaches history at the University of Glamorgan, UK.Göran Rydén, Ph.D. (1991) in Economic History, Uppsala University, is Professor at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University.

• List of Maps, Figures, Illustrations, and TablesAbbreviationsChapter One. The Warehouse of the World. Commerce and Production in the Early Modern Atlantic WorldChapter Two. The Topography of the Early Modern Iron Trade, c.1730Chapter Three. The International Iron Trade at a Crossroads: Swedish and British Debates, 1730-1760Chapter Four. An Industrial Revolution in Iron – Technology, Organisation and Markets, 1760-1870ConclusionDramatis PersonaeGlossaryBibliographyIndex

The present book [...] is a model study in historical research; without doubt the fruit of several years of painstaking archival work on both sides of the North Sea, involving different languages and cultures. It is to be highly recommended to anyone interested in the intimate working mechanisms of the eighteenth-century Atlantic economy."Philipp Robinson Rössner, University of Leipzig, Germany (Journal of Economic History, 2010: 773-775)."(... Evans and Rydén) give those of us who do not read Swedish access to material we could not otherwise study, Their research in primary sources has been very extensive."Robert B. Gordon, Technology and Culture 51 (2010) 756-757."Baltic iron in the Atlantic world in the eighteenth century är en mycket läsvärd bok. (...) Evans och Rudén har därtill en elegant prosa och texten kompletteras av fina illustrationer. (...) Sammanfattningsvis lyckas mycket bra med att skapa en förstaelse av det komplexa system som järnhanteringen var och som länkade en liten by i Norduppland med befästa städer pa den afrikanska kusten."Fredrik Sandgren, Historik Tidskrift 3 (2009) 571-573.