Crisis and Resilience in the Bristol‐West India Sugar Trade, 1783–1802. By PeterBuckles. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2024. 232 p. £95.00 (hb). ISBN 978‐1‐802‐07883‐1.
Year: 2025
Type: book-review
Abstract: economic, and political actors.For example, he emphasizes the way in which the rebellion of enslaved people in St Vincent and Grenada influenced the price of sugar in 1795.In the conclusion of Chapter 4, he also explains how the enslaved rebels on the island of Saint Domingue, modern day Haiti, brought chaos and disruption to the sugar market when actioning their own freedom.Overall, Buckles provides an insightful and well-thought-out analysis of Bristol's West Indian sugar trade.His case study coherently illuminates aspects and trends within these sugar markets and explores the world in which Tobin & Pinney, and other Bristolian merchants, occupied.His careful consideration of a wide range of factors allows him to illustrate how Bristol's merchants dealt with crisis at the end of the eighteenth century.
Author: Hannah Smith
Institution: Keele University
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4409818341