Part 1 Portuguese intercontinental commerce: a merchant adventurer in Brazil, Herbert Heaton; the people and the politics of Portuguese India during the 16th and early-17th centuries, M.N. Pearson. Part 2 Spanish intercontinental trade: Spanish ships and shipping in the 16th and 17th centuries, Abbott Payson Usher; merchants in 17th-century Mexico City - a preliminary portrait, Louisa Schell Hoberman. Part 3 Dutch intercontinental commerce: Dutch and English merchant shipping in the 17th century, Violet Barbour; the Dutch East India Company as an institutional innovation, Niels Steensgaard; the phasis of the Dutch Straatvaart, 1690-1713 - a chapter in the economic history of the Mediterranean. Part 4 British intercontinental commerce: the English East India Company in the 17th and early 18th centuries - a pre-modern multinational organization, K.N. Chaudhuri; Joshua Johnson in London, 1771-1775 - credit and commercial organization in the British Chesapeake trade, Jacob Price. Part 5 The imitation companies: French mercantilism, commercial companies and colonial profitability, Pierre H. Boulle; ownership in East India Company shipping - Prussia, Scandinavia and the Austrian Netherlands in the 18th century, C. Koninckx; Dutch Batavia trade via Copenhagen, 1795-1807 - a study in colonial trade and neutrality, Ole Feldbaek. Part 6 The effects of long-distance trade: the colonial trades and industrial investment in Scotland, c.1700-1815, T.M. Devine; the East India Company and the prosperity of the republic, I.J. Brugmans. Part 7 Overseas shipping and the labour market: the people on board, A.C.J. Vermeulen; the East India Company and military recruitment in Britain, 1763-1771, Huw V. Bowen. Part 8 Privateering and piracy: corruption and corsairs in Western India, M.N. Pearson; "A Frugal, Prudential and Hopeful Trade": privateering in Jamaica, 1655-89, Nuala Zahedieh.
