Author: Arthur Meier Schlesinger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 636

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Author: Richard Kerwin MacMaster
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903688786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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During the course of the eighteenth century, migration from Europe and Africa shaped the emerging consciousness and culture of the American Colonies. Whether free, bond servant, or slave, migrants brought skills and folkways from their motherlands, contributing to the agricultural and commercial development as well as to the peopling of North America. Emigrants from Ulster, the northern province of Ireland, did all of this and more. Ulster exported an economy. This book tells the story of the transatlantic links between Ulster and America in the eighteenth century. The author draws upon a remarkable range of sources gleaned from numerous repositories in America and Ireland as he explores the realities of life and work for the merchants. The trading networks and connections established and the economic background to the period are examined in some detail. This volume provides fascinating insights into the connections between Ulster and Colonial America through the experiences of the Scotch-Irish merchants.

Author: Kevin P. McDonald
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520958780
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, more than a thousand pirates poured from the Atlantic into the Indian Ocean. There, according to Kevin P. McDonald, they helped launch an informal trade network that spanned the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, connecting the North American colonies with the rich markets of the East Indies. Rather than conducting their commerce through chartered companies based in London or Lisbon, colonial merchants in New York entered into an alliance with Euro-American pirates based in Madagascar. Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves explores the resulting global trade network located on the peripheries of world empires and shows the illicit ways American colonists met the consumer demand for slaves and East India goods. The book reveals that pirates played a significant yet misunderstood role in this period and that seafaring slaves were both commodities and essential components in the Indo-Atlantic maritime networks. Enlivened by stories of Indo-Atlantic sailors and cargoes that included textiles, spices, jewels and precious metals, chinaware, alcohol, and drugs, this book links previously isolated themes of piracy, colonialism, slavery, transoceanic networks, and cross-cultural interactions and extends the boundaries of traditional Atlantic, national, world, and colonial histories.

Author: Thomas M. Truxes
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300161301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465

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A sweeping history of early American trade and the foundation of the American economy In a single, readily digestible, coherent narrative, historian Thomas M. Truxes presents the three hundred–year history of the overseas trade of British America. Born from seeds planted in Tudor England in the sixteenth century, Atlantic trade allowed the initial survival, economic expansion, and later prosperity of British America, and brought vastly different geographical regions, each with a distinctive identity and economic structure, into a single fabric. Truxes shows how colonial American prosperity was only possible because of the labor of enslaved Africans, how the colonial economy became dependent on free and open markets, and how the young United States owed its survival in the struggle of the American Revolution to Atlantic trade.

Author: Bernard Bailyn
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674612808
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Based on thesis--Harvard University. Includes bibliographical references.

Author: Cathy D. Matson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, the port of New Amsterdam--later New York--bustled with the activity of emergingcapitalism. MERCHANTS AND EMPIRE examines the attitudes and practices of New York's merchants and traders and offers vivid descriptions of their New York City environs. A compelling look at early America and old New York, sure to interest students and scholars of economic history. 12 illustrations.

Author: Robin May
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780865921399
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Describes the life of a colonial merchant, his business, family life, home, social life, and his role in the War of Independence. Includes a glossary of terms.

Author: Gregory E. O'Malley
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469615347
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411

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Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807

Author: Trevor Burnard
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022663924X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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"As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. Beyond resources and weapons, a plantation required a significant force of cruel and rapacious men men who, as Trevor Burnard sees it, lacked any better options for making money. In the contentious Planters, Merchants, and Slaves, Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop and maintain the plantation system out of virulent racism or sadism, but rather out of economic logic because to speak bluntly it worked. These economically successful and ethically monstrous plantations required racial divisions to exist, but their successes were always measured in gold, rather than skin or blood. Burnard argues that the best example of plantations functioning as intended is not those found in the fractious and poor North American colonies, but those in their booming and integrated commercial hub, Jamaica. Sure to be controversial, this book is a major intervention in the scholarship on slavery, economic development, and political power in early British America, mounting a powerful and original argument that boldly challenges historical orthodoxy."--

Author: Mark Abbott Stern
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271036699
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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"A biography of David Franks, an American Jewish merchant in Philadelphia during the colonial period and the War for Independence. A supplier to the British Army since the French and Indian War, Franks, though acquitted of treason, was forced out of Pennsylvania"--Provided by publisher.