Author: Atlantic Provinces Economic CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Agriculture and the Atlantic Economy
Author: Atlantic Provinces Economic CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Agriculture and the Atlantic Economy
Author: R. K. FletcherThe Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland's Eastern Shore
Author: Paul G. ClemensPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501733745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
In the eighteenth century, cash grains were introduced on Maryland's Eastern Shore and eventually replaced tobacco as market crops. What factors brought about this shift from tobacco production to diversified agriculture, and what were its effects on the people living there? This book charts the early social and economic history of the Eastern Shore, focusing on the ways in which Atlantic commerce shaped the lives of English settlers between 1620 and 1776. Professor Clemens is concerned with the relationship between changes in society brought about by local economic circumstances and those created by international market conditions. He also points out the distinctive balance between commercial agriculture and self-sufficiency farming that was achieved on the Eastern Shore. Offering a new perspective on early American history, his book not only depicts the growth of a particular region in colonial America but places that growth in the broader context of both the Atlantic market economy and the economies of other English New World settlements.
Agriculture and the Atlantic Economy
Author: Conseil économique des provinces de l'AtlantiquePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade and Slavery in Atlantic Africa
Author: Robin LawPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 184701075X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery within Africa itself, from the beginnings of European maritime trade in the fifteenth century to the early stages of colonial rule in the twentieth century. From the outset, the export of agricultural produce from Africa represented a potential alternative to the slave trade: although the predominant trend was to transport enslaved Africans to the Americas to cultivate crops, there was recurrent interest in the possibility of establishing plantations in Africa to produce such crops, or to purchase them from independent African producers. This idea gained greater currency in the context of the movement for the abolition of the slave trade from the late eighteenth century onwards, when the promotion of commercial agriculture in Africa was seen as a means of suppressing the slave trade. At the same time, the slave trade itself stimulated commercial agriculture in Africa, to supply provisions for slave-ships in the Middle Passage. Commercial agriculture was also linked to slavery within Africa, since slaves were widely employed there in agricultural production. Although Abolitionists hoped that production of export crops in Africa would be based on free labour, in practice it often employed enslaved labour, so that slavery in Africa persisted into the colonial period. Robin Law is Emeritus Professor of African History, University of Stirling; Suzanne Schwarz is Professor of History, University of Worcester; Silke Strickrodt is Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham.
The Rise of the Atlantic Economies
Author: Ralph DavisPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801491436
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The Rise of the Atlantic Economies surveys the economic history of Spain, the Netherlands, France, and England and of the colonies they established, or had dealings with, in North and South America from the beginnings of Portuguese exploration in the fifteenth century to the American Revolution.
Transatlantic Food and Agricultural Trade Policy
Author: Timothy E. JoslingPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1783476966
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Transatlantic Food and Agricultural Trade Policy traces the past fifty years of transatlantic trade relations in the area of food and agricultural policy, from early skirmishes over chicken exports to ongoing conflicts over biotech foods and hormone us
Agricultural Economic Report
Author: Topical Studies and References on the Economic History of American Agriculture
Author: Louis Bernard SchmidtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System
Author: Barbara L. SolowPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521457378
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Placing slavery in the mainstream of modern history, the essays in this survey describe its transfer from the Old World, its role in forging the interdependence of the Atlantic economies, and its impact on Africa.