Author: Arthur Meier SchlesingerPublisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 9781587981081
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Examines the economic facotrs that contributed to the American Revolution.
The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763-1776
Author: Arthur Meier SchlesingerPublisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 9781587981081
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Examines the economic facotrs that contributed to the American Revolution.
The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century
Author: Bernard BailynPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674612808
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Based on thesis--Harvard University. Includes bibliographical references.
The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763-1776
Author: Arthur Meier SchlesingerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780781252201
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 647
Book Description
Bonded Leather binding
Smugglers & Patriots
Author: John W. TylerPublisher: Colonial Society of Massach
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763-1776
Author: Arthur Meier SchlesingerPublisher: New York : Columbia university
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Merchants and Revolution
Author: Robert BrennerPublisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859843338
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
A major reinterpretation of the transformation of English commerce in the century after 1550.
The Overseas Trade of British America
Author: Thomas M. TruxesPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300161301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
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.
The Counter-Revolution of 1776
Author: Gerald HornePublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479808725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British. In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne shows that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders, and sparking the colonial revolt. Prior to 1776, anti-slavery sentiments were deepening throughout Britain and in the Caribbean, rebellious Africans were in revolt. For European colonists in America, the major threat to their security was a foreign invasion combined with an insurrection of the enslaved. It was a real and threatening possibility that London would impose abolition throughout the colonies—a possibility the founding fathers feared would bring slave rebellions to their shores. To forestall it, they went to war. The so-called Revolutionary War, Horne writes, was in part a counter-revolution, a conservative movement that the founding fathers fought in order to preserve their right to enslave others. The Counter-Revolution of 1776 brings us to a radical new understanding of the traditional heroic creation myth of the United States.
The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763-1776
Author: Arthur Meier SchlesingerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781494122140
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1939 edition.
Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves
Author: Kevin P. McDonaldPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520958780
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
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.