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Author: Robin May
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 9780865921399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes 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: Stanley F. Chyet
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rodney P Carlisle
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2017-01-15
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1682470873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRough Waters traces the evolution of the role of the U.S. merchant ship flag, and the U.S. merchant fleet itself. Rodney Carlisle looks at conduct and commerce at sea from the earliest days of the country, when battles at sea were fought over honor and the flag, to the current American-owned merchant fleet sailing under flags of convenience via foreign registries. Carlisle examines the world-wide use, legality, and continued acceptance of this practice, as well as measures to off-set its ill effects. Looking at the interwar period of 1919–1939, Carlisle examines how the practice of foreign registry of American-owned vessels began on a large scale, led by Standard Oil with tankers under the flag of the Free City of Danzig and followed by Panama. The work spells out how the United States helped further the practice of registry in Panama and Liberia after World War II. Rough Waters concludes with a look at how the practice of foreign registry shapes present-day commerce and labor relations.
Author: Cathy Matson
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2003-03-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780801872471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Merchants and Empire, Cathy Matson examines the economic ideas and behavior of New York City's commercial wholesalers, especially the middling merchants who, as a majority of active traders, affected the character of city commerce over its colonial years. Although less prominent in transatlantic dry goods commerce than the great traders, this middling majority spread dissenting economic ideas and flouted political authority time and again when the benefits to their interests were clear. Indeed, middling or lesser merchants fashioned a plausible alternative to mercantilism, and contributed significantly to the challenges Americans offered to British rule in the final colonial years.
Author: Richard Kerwin MacMaster
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781903688786
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring 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: Mark Abbott Stern
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0271036699
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
Author: Bernard Bailyn
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1955
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780674612808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on thesis--Harvard University. Includes bibliographical references.
Author: Kevin P. McDonald
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2015-03-13
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0520958780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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: Arthur Meier Schlesinger
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 636
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marian Mathison Desrosiers
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2017-07-21
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1476669325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMerchant John Banister (1707-1767) of Newport, Rhode Island, wore many hats: exporter, importer, wholesaler, retailer, money-lender, extender of credit and insurer, owner and outfitter of sailing vessels, and ship builder for the slave trade. His recently discovered accounting records reveal his role in transforming colonial trade in mid-18th century America. He combined business acumen and a strong work ethic with knowledge of the law and new technologies. Through his maritime activities and real estate development, he was a rain-maker for artisans, workers and producers, contributing to income opportunities for businesswomen, freemen and slaves. Drawing on Banister's meticulous daybooks, ledgers, letters and receipts, the author analyzes his contribution to the economic history of colonial America, highlighting the complexity of the commerce of the era.
