This book offers the first long-term analysis of the protracted struggle between Britain, France, Prussia, Russia, and Sweden for economic power and political influence in the northern part of the Eurasian continent between 1660 and 1860. This book shows how their commercial, diplomatic, and...

Introduction: Promises and predicaments of the long eighteenth-century transatlantic world / Seohyon Jung -- Pirates, slaves, and profligate rogues : sailors of color in the eighteenth-century maritime world / Victoria Barnett-Woods -- "Commencing merchant" : forms of feeling and logics of...