"A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave trade This is a landmark study given its clear status as easily the best researched and most comprehensive book on the British slave trade to date. -David Eltis, coauthor of Atlas...

This book provides a critical analysis of visual images of British and international finance during the nineteenth century. Its focus is on the financiers themselves, contrasting the depiction of the respectable Merchant Princes with the less than perfect charlatans (white-collar criminals) who...

Endings and Beginnings -- From Peddling to Prominence-The Early Years -- The William H. Block Company -- H. P. Wasson and Company -- The College Boards -- L. Strauss and Company: "He'll Open His Strauss Gift First" -- Davidson's and Paul Harris: Haute (and Not So Haute) Couture Pioneers -- The...