St Peter Port, 1680-1830: The History of an International Entrepôt - Gregory Stevens-Cox - Google Books

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Gregory Stevens Cox's immensely readable and meticulously researched history of St Peter Port in the eighteenth century provides a fascinating account of the town's place in the trading world of the Atlantic. He shows that it was trade, not privateering,…