Jacob Myron Price
Jacob "Jack" Myron Price, FBA, FRHS, was a historian known for his detailed studies of the early modern Atlantic economy. He was closely associated with the Institute of Historical Research of London University.
Selected publications
- Reading for Life. Developing the college student's life-time reading interest. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1959.
- The tobacco adventure to Russia. Enterprise, politics, and diplomacy in the quest for a northern market for English colonial tobacco, 1676-1722. Philadelphia, 1961.
- The dimensions of the past. Materials, problems, and opportunities for quantitative work in history. American Historical Association. Committee on Quantitative Data. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1972.
- France and the Chesapeake. A history of the French tobacco monopoly, 1674-1791, and of its relationship to the British and American tobacco trades, etc. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1973.
- Joshua Johnson's letterbook, 1771-1774: Letters from a merchant in London to his partners in Maryland. London Record Society, London, 1979.
- Capital and credit in British overseas trade: The view from the Chesapeake, 1700-1776. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1980.
- Perry of London: A family and a firm on the seaborne frontier, 1615-1753. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1992.
- Tobacco in Atlantic trade: The Chesapeake, London and Glasgow 1675-1775. Variorum, Aldershot, 1995.
- Overseas trade and traders: Essays on some commercial, financial, and political challenges facing British Atlantic merchants, 1660-1775. Variorum, Aldershot, 1996.
- The Atlantic frontier of the thirteen American colonies and states: Essays in eighteenth century commercial and social history. Variorum, Aldershot, 1996.