Colonial Ports Global Trade And The Roots Of The American Revolution 1700 1776

Author : Jeremy Land
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004542709

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Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700 — 1776) by Jeremy Land Pdf

This book takes a long-run view of the global maritime trade of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia from 1700 to American Independence in 1776. Land argues that the three cities developed large, global networks of maritime commerce and exchange that created tension between merchants and the British Empire which sought to enforce mercantilist policies to constrain American trade to within the British Empire. Colonial merchants created and then expanded their mercantile networks well beyond the confines of the British Empire. This trans-imperial trade (often considered smuggling by British authorities) formed the roots of what became known as the American Revolution.

Author : Jeremy Land
Publisher : Library of Economic History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9004542698

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Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700 -- 1776) by Jeremy Land Pdf

The book explores how global maritime trade shaped and influenced the economies, societies, and politics of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia and how colonial efforts to expand their participation in the global economy formed the roots of the American Revolution.

Author : Sophie Jones,Siobhan Talbott
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004689879

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Business News in the Early Modern Atlantic World by Sophie Jones,Siobhan Talbott Pdf

Business News in the Early Modern Atlantic World explores the creation, dissemination, and consumption of a specific type of news, ‘business news’, within early modern commercial news networks. The volume contains eleven case studies, written by scholars from a range of disciplines, which span the breadth of the early modern Atlantic from the first appearance of serial corantos in the seventeenth century to the United States’ Declaration of Independence in the late eighteenth century. These expert contributions showcase the range of innovative methodological and theoretical approaches which can be used to study business news, including social network analysis, textual analysis, and qualitative methods.

Author : Strother E. Roberts
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812251272

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Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy by Strother E. Roberts Pdf

Focusing on the Connecticut River Valley—New England's longest river and largest watershed— Strother Roberts traces the local, regional, and transatlantic markets in colonial commodities that shaped an ecological transformation in one corner of the rapidly globalizing early modern world. Reaching deep into the interior, the Connecticut provided a watery commercial highway for the furs, grain, timber, livestock, and various other commodities that the region exported. Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy shows how the extraction of each commodity had an impact on the New England landscape, creating a new colonial ecology inextricably tied to the broader transatlantic economy beyond its shores. This history refutes two common misconceptions: first, that globalization is a relatively new phenomenon and its power to reshape economies and natural environments has only fully been realized in the modern era and, second, that the Puritan founders of New England were self-sufficient ascetics who sequestered themselves from the corrupting influence of the wider world. Roberts argues, instead, that colonial New England was an integral part of Britain's expanding imperialist commercial economy. Imperial planners envisioned New England as a region able to provide resources to other, more profitable parts of the empire, such as the sugar islands of the Caribbean. Settlers embraced trade as a means to afford the tools they needed to conquer the landscape and to acquire the same luxury commodities popular among the consumer class of Europe. New England's native nations, meanwhile, utilized their access to European trade goods and weapons to secure power and prestige in a region shaken by invading newcomers and the diseases that followed in their wake. These networks of extraction and exchange fundamentally transformed the natural environment of the region, creating a landscape that, by the turn of the nineteenth century, would have been unrecognizable to those living there two centuries earlier.

Author : Robert W. Coakley,Stetson Conn,Center of Military History
Publisher : Militarybookshop.CompanyUK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1780394438

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The War of the American Revolution by Robert W. Coakley,Stetson Conn,Center of Military History Pdf

Author : Diane Coyle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691231044

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Cogs and Monsters by Diane Coyle Pdf

How economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economy Digital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure, understand, and shape. In Cogs and Monsters, Diane Coyle explores the enormous problems—but also opportunities—facing economics today and examines what it must do to help policymakers solve the world’s crises, from pandemic recovery and inequality to slow growth and the climate emergency. Mainstream economics, Coyle says, still assumes people are “cogs”—self-interested, calculating, independent agents interacting in defined contexts. But the digital economy is much more characterized by “monsters”—untethered, snowballing, and socially influenced unknowns. What is worse, by treating people as cogs, economics is creating its own monsters, leaving itself without the tools to understand the new problems it faces. In response, Coyle asks whether economic individualism is still valid in the digital economy, whether we need to measure growth and progress in new ways, and whether economics can ever be objective, since it influences what it analyzes. Just as important, the discipline needs to correct its striking lack of diversity and inclusion if it is to be able to offer new solutions to new problems. Filled with original insights, Cogs and Monsters offers a road map for how economics can adapt to the rewiring of society, including by digital technologies, and realize its potential to play a hugely positive role in the twenty-first century.

Author : Stephen John Hornsby
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1584654279

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British Atlantic, American Frontier by Stephen John Hornsby Pdf

A pioneering work in Atlantic studies that emphasizes a transnational approach to the past.

Author : Robin Blackburn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002496888

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The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848 by Robin Blackburn Pdf

A brilliant evocation of the diverse nature of New World slavery in the Revolutionary Age. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Kris Manjapra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108425261

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Colonialism in Global Perspective by Kris Manjapra Pdf

A provocative, breath-taking, and concise relational history of colonialism over the past 500 years, from the dawn of the New World to the twenty-first century.

Author : Robert C. Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199596652

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Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction by Robert C. Allen Pdf

Together these countries pioneered new technologies that have made them ever richer.

Author : Joseph M. Adelman
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421439907

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Revolutionary Networks by Joseph M. Adelman Pdf

Offering a unique perspective on the American Revolution and early American print culture, Revolutionary Networks reveals how these men and women managed political upheaval through a commercial lens.

Author : Eliga Gould,Paul Mapp,Carla Gardina Pestana
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1073 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108317818

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The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 1, 1500–1820 by Eliga Gould,Paul Mapp,Carla Gardina Pestana Pdf

The first volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States emerged out of a series of colonial interactions, some involving indigenous empires and communities that were already present when the first Europeans reached the Americas, others the adventurers and settlers dispatched by Europe's imperial powers to secure their American claims, and still others men and women brought as slaves or indentured servants to the colonies that European settlers founded. Collecting the thoughts of dynamic scholars working in the fields of early American, Atlantic, and global history, the volume presents an unrivalled portrait of the human richness and global connectedness of early modern America. Essay topics include exploration and environment, conquest and commerce, enslavement and emigration, dispossession and endurance, empire and independence, new forms of law and new forms of worship, and the creation and destruction when the peoples of four continents met in the Americas.

Author : Larry Schweikart,Michael Patrick Allen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1350 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101217788

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A Patriot's History of the United States by Larry Schweikart,Michael Patrick Allen Pdf

For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.

Author : C.L.R. James
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780593687338

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The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James Pdf

A powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history: the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803 “One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition.... Provocative and empowering.” —The New York Times Book Review The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began in the wake of the storming of the Bastille in France and became the model for liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe. And it is the story of a charismatic and barely literate enslaved person named Toussaint L’Ouverture, who successfully led the Black people of San Domingo against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces—and in the process helped form the first independent post-colonial nation in the Caribbean. With a new introduction (2023) by Professor David Scott.

Author : Alan Taylor
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393253870

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American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor Pdf

“Excellent . . . deserves high praise. Mr. Taylor conveys this sprawling continental history with economy, clarity, and vividness.”—Brendan Simms, Wall Street Journal The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the nation its democratic framework. Alan Taylor, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history. The American Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading Britain’s colonies, fueled by local conditions and resistant to control. Emerging from the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, the revolution pivoted on western expansion as well as seaboard resistance to British taxes. When war erupted, Patriot crowds harassed Loyalists and nonpartisans into compliance with their cause. The war exploded in set battles like Saratoga and Yorktown and spread through continuing frontier violence. The discord smoldering within the fragile new nation called forth a movement to concentrate power through a Federal Constitution. Assuming the mantle of “We the People,” the advocates of national power ratified the new frame of government. But it was Jefferson’s expansive “empire of liberty” that carried the revolution forward, propelling white settlement and slavery west, preparing the ground for a new conflagration.