..., employing, and retaining information and the technology that was ultimately produced. This analysis looks at cartography and the hardware of communication, armaments and sea power, mercantilism and imperialism, science and astronomy, as well as bureaucracy and the management of information, linking...

...This chapter explains how the growth of the colonial export sector distinguished the mercantile activity of Britain from that of other European powers from the middle of the eighteenth century. It was in the mid-eighteenth century that the value of British exports entered an unprecedented period...