Aaron Graham Memorial Lecture: Caribbean Investment and the Financialisation of the British Economy in the eighteenth century
Change in the British economy of the long eighteenth century involved transformation of the institutions and practices of the national and international financial sector as a well as shifts in manufacturing and technology that have received much greater attention. Both were stimulated by Caribbean colonialism and the exploitation of enslaved Africans. Linking with Aaron Graham’s important research, this lecture will focus on finance. In particular we will consider the ways in which investment in plantation estates led to wider changes that encouraged the mobilisation of wealth in Britain for industrialisation and for the further expansion of Empire.
All welcome-this event is free to attend but booking is required.
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