The Overseas Trade of British America
The Overseas Trade of British America

Author: Thomas M. Truxes

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0300159889

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A sweeping history of early American trade and the foundation of the American economy "We could have no better guide than Truxes explaining incisively how American colonial merchants enriched their communities through licit and illicit trade, and how this enrichment was the product of slavery and the slave trade."--Nicholas Canny, author of Imagining Ireland's Pasts 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.

A Planters' Republic
A Planters' Republic

Author: Bruce A. Ragsdale

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780945612407

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This exciting reinterpretation of the path to Revolution follows Virginia planters' attempts to break with England and shows how their grassroots effort at self-sufficiency solidified into political resistance, war, and independence.

Atlantic Trade and the British Economy: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
Atlantic Trade and the British Economy: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Author: Oxford University Press

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2010-06-01

Total Pages: 19

ISBN-13: 0199808201

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This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated. This ebook is just one of many articles from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Atlantic History, a continuously updated and growing online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through the scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of Atlantic History, the study of the transnational interconnections between Europe, North America, South America, and Africa, particularly in the early modern and colonial period. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibliographies.com.

Decline and Recovery in Britain’s Overseas Trade, 1873–1914
Decline and Recovery in Britain’s Overseas Trade, 1873–1914

Author: D.C.M. Platt

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1349109584

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For too long there has been an unquestioning acceptance that Britain's economic decline began long before the First World War. By focusing on international trade in the 1873-1914 period this book analyses the facts behind this myth, examining Britain's performance in comparison with that of its major rivals in the very areas where they came into competition with each other. What emerges is a much more complex picture of both losses and gains, in which Britain's position gradually adjusted to a changing world economic order, and appeared to be doing so remarkably successfully.

Elites, Enterprise and the Making of the British Overseas Empire1688-1775
Elites, Enterprise and the Making of the British Overseas Empire1688-1775

Author: H. Bowen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1996-07-24

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0230390196

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This book examines the cultural, economic, and social forces that shaped the development of the British empire in the eighteenth century. The empire is placed in a broad historiographical context informed by important recent work on the 'fiscal-military state', and 'gentlemanly capitalism'. This allows the empire to be seen not as a series of discrete, unconnected geographical regions scattered across the world, but as a commercial, cultural, and social body with its roots very firmly planted in metropolitan society.

A Culture of Credit
A Culture of Credit

Author: Rowena OLEGARIO

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0674041631

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In the growing and dynamic economy of nineteenth-century America, businesses sold vast quantities of goods to one another, mostly on credit. This book explains how business people solved the problem of whom to trust--how they determined who was deserving of credit, and for how much. Rowena Olegario traces the way resistance, mutual suspicion, skepticism, and legal challenges were overcome in the relentless quest to make information on business borrowers more accurate and available.

Trade, Empire and British Foreign Policy, 1689-1815
Trade, Empire and British Foreign Policy, 1689-1815

Author: Jeremy Black

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-01-18

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1134221800

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This new volume examines the influence of trade and empire from 1689 to 1815, a crucial period for British foreign policy and state-building.Jeremy Black, a leading expert on British foreign policy, draws on the wide range of archival material, as well as other sources, in order to ask how far, and through what processes and to what ends, foreign p

Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660–1800
Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660–1800

Author: Kenneth Morgan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-01-04

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1316583813

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This book considers the impact of slavery and Atlantic trade on British economic development in the generations between the restoration of the Stuart monarchy and the era of the Younger Pitt. During this period Britain's trade became 'Americanised' and industrialisation began to occur in the domestic economy. The slave trade and the broader patterns of Atlantic commerce contributed important dimensions of British economic growth although they were more significant for their indirect, qualitative contribution than for direct quantitative gains. Kenneth Morgan investigates five key areas within the topic that have been subject to historical debate: the profits of the slave trade; slavery, capital accumulation and British economic development; exports and transatlantic markets; the role of business institutions; and the contribution of Atlantic trade to the growth of British ports. This stimulating and accessible book provides essential reading for students of slavery and the slave trade, and British economic history.