This book looks at the one of the key commercial links between the Baltic and Atlantic worlds in the eighteenth century - the export of Swedish and Russian iron to Britain - and its role in the making of the modern world.

The warehouse of the world : commerce and production in the early modern Atlantic world -- The topography of the early modern iron trade, c. 1730 -- The international iron trade at a crossroads : Swedish and British debates, 1730-1760 -- An industrial revolution in iron technology, organisation...