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2. See R. Davis, The Industrial Revolution and British Overseas Trade 1784–1854 (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1979). See also the appendix to this chapter.
3. For an account of a British wine merchant’s activity in Sicily see I.D. Neu, ‘An English Businessman in Sicily 1806–1861’, in Business History Review, 31 (1957), pp. 355–74.
4. D. Landes, ‘The Old Bank and the New: The Financial Revolution of the Nineteenth Century’, in F. Crouzet, F.W. Chaloner and W.M. Stern (eds), Essays in European Economic History 1789–1914 (London: Arnold, 1969), p. 115.
5. R.B. Westerfield, Middlemen in English Business particularly between 1660 and 1760 (New Haven, 1915), pp. 351–61.