MOC Economics and Commerce
The money, trade, and resources that funded armies, built fleets, and drove empires.
Subdomains
- Trade_Routes_Index — overland and maritime trade routes, chokepoints, blockades
- War_Finance_Index — how wars were paid for — bonds, taxation, plunder, loans
- Finance_Credit_Index — contractor accounts, vouchers, public-credit frauds
- Resources_Production_Index — timber, iron, copper, food, horses — the raw material of warfare
- Prize_Plunder_Index — prize money system, privateering, looting, war booty
- Industry_Labour_Index — shipyards, foundries, powder mills, dockyards, labor conditions
Key Notes
- Four Spanish Prizes of Cape St Vincent 1797 — first filled prize-plunder note; 14 February 1797
- Finisterre Prizes — 22 July 1805 — San Rafael and Firme
- Baltic Naval Stores — 1800–1801 — first filled trade-routes note; timber, hemp, tar, pitch
- Mercury Convoy — Córdova 1 February 1797 — convoy / 1 February / mercury only; overflow
- English Oak — Shipbuilding Timber — first filled resources-production note; Victory timber credit only
- English Elm — Shipbuilding Timber — Victory keel timber credit only; overflow
- Royal Dockyards — Largest Industrial Enterprises — first filled industry-labour note; scale only
- Antigua Contractor Frauds — contractor figures only; first filled finance-credit note