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Author : James H. Soltow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Williamsburg (Va.)
ISBN : UOM:39015035078693
Author : James Ciment
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3151 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317474166
No era in American history has been more fascinating to Americans, or more critical to the ultimate destiny of the United States, than the colonial era. Between the time that the first European settlers established a colony at Jamestown in 1607 through the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the outlines of America's distinctive political culture, economic system, social life, and cultural patterns had begun to emerge. Designed to complement the high school American history curriculum as well as undergraduate survey courses, "Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History" captures it all: the people, institutions, ideas, and events of the first three hundred years of American history. While it focuses on the thirteen British colonies stretching along the Atlantic, Colonial America sets this history in its larger contexts. Entries also cover Canada, the American Southwest and Mexico, and the Caribbean and Atlantic world directly impacting the history of the thirteen colonies. This encyclopedia explores the complete early history of what would become the United States, including portraits of Native American life in the immediate pre-contact period, early Spanish exploration, and the first settlements by Spanish, French, Dutch, Swedish, and English colonists. This monumental five-volume set brings America's colonial heritage vibrantly to life for today's readers. It includes: thematic essays on major issues and topics; detailed A-Z entries on hundreds of people, institutions, events, and ideas; thematic and regional chronologies; hundreds of illustrations; primary documents; and a glossary and multiple indexes.
Author : Claire Priest
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691241722
How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on credit Even before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America apart from the rest of the world. Credit Nation examines how the drive to expand credit shaped property laws and legal institutions in the colonial and founding eras of the republic. In this major new history of early America, Claire Priest describes how the British Parliament departed from the customary ways that English law protected land and inheritance, enacting laws for the colonies that privileged creditors by defining land and slaves as commodities available to satisfy debts. Colonial governments, in turn, created local legal institutions that enabled people to further leverage their assets to obtain credit. Priest shows how loans backed with slaves as property fueled slavery from the colonial era through the Civil War, and that increased access to credit was key to the explosive growth of capitalism in nineteenth-century America. Credit Nation presents a new vision of American economic history, one where credit markets and liquidity were prioritized from the outset, where property rights and slaves became commodities for creditors' claims, and where legal institutions played a critical role in the Stamp Act crisis and other political episodes of the founding period.
Author : Arthur Power Dudden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351959384
American Empire in the Pacific explores the empire that emerged from the Oregon Treaty of 1846 with Great Britain and the outcome of the Mexican War in 1848. Together, they signalled the mastery of the United States over the continent of North America; the Pacific Ocean and the ancient civilizations of Asia at last lay within reach. England's East India Company in the 17th and 18th centuries had introduced Asian wares including tea to the American colonists, but wars against France and then the struggle for American independence held back expansion by Yankee entrepreneurs until 1783. Thereafter, from the Atlantic seaboard, American ships began regularly to reach China. Merchants, sailors and missionaries, motivated toward trade and redemption like the Europeans they met along the way, encountered the exotic peoples and cultures of the Pacific. Would-be empire builders projected a manifest destiny without limits. Russian Alaska, the native kingdom of Hawai'i, Japan, Korea, Samoa, and Spain's Philippine Islands, as well as a transcontinental railroad and an isthmian canal, acquired strategic significance in American minds, in time to outweigh both commerce and conversion.
Author : Linda Sturtz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135301965
This is an engaging and comprehensive study of property-owning women in the colony of Tidewater, VA during the 17th & 18th centuries. It examines the social restrictions on women's behaviour and speech, opportunities and difficulties these women encountered in the legal system, the economic and discretionary authority they enjoyed, the roles they played in the family business,their roles in the later, trans-Atlantic trading framework, and the imperial context within which these colonial women lived, making this a welcome addition to both colonial and women's history.
Author : Trevor Burnard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136701887
Examining the lives of 460 of the wealthiest men who lived in colonial Maryland, Burnard traces the development of this elite from a hard-living, profit-driven merchant-planter class in the seventeenth century to a more genteel class of plantation owners in the eighteenth century. This study innovatively compares these men to their counterparts elsewhere in the British Empire, including absentee Caribbean landowners and East Indian nabobs, illustrating their place in the Atlantic economic network.
Author : Rhys Isaac
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838600
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontations--primarily religious and political--that transformed Virginia in the second half of the eighteenth century. Making use of the observational techniques of the cultural anthropologist, Isaac vividly recreates and painstakingly dissects a society in the turmoil of profound inner change.
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000830927
Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume discusses the development of the Atlantic slave trade in the seventeenth century, looking at issues such as how African societies reacted to the trade; the economic origins of black slavery in the British West Indies; and the growth of plantations responding to changes in European diet – particularly the rise of the sugar economy. The volume also has an introduction by the editor commenting on the contribution each essay makes.
Author : Marc Egnal
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780195114829
"New World Economies is a valuable addition to the body of literature about economic development in eighteenth-century North America, and a much-needed comparative study of the British and French colonies. Egnal presents a cogent explanation for why the staple export thesis has not adequately explained economic growth in the colonial period, and makes a clear and compelling case that changes in the terms of trade and capital inflows were the more influential forces emanating from the international sector. From that perspective, the links between the British and French colonies and their respective mother countries were the primary determinants of the pace and timing of development. The book's argument is strengthened by examining these forces at the regional and sectoral levels, and by stressing the fluctuations in economic fortunes over the century. Domestic influences, such as productivity growth, are of secondary importance in Egnal's scheme, but nevertheless are given more prominence than they have had in previous work. This book is superbly written and contains a valuable array of charts, tables, and new time series on prices of specific exports and imports. New World Economies will be the starting point for any future research on the economic development of the British and French colonies in the eighteenth century."--Thomas Weiss, University of Kansas
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : United States
ISBN : UCR:31210001200359
Author : Richard Lee Morton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007318517
Publishes refereed scholarship in history and related disciplines from initial Old World-New World contacts to the early nineteenth century and beyond. Its articles, notes and documents, and reviews range from British North America and the United States to Europe, West Africa, the Caribbean, and the Spanish American borderlands. Forums and topical issues address topics of active interest in the field.
Author : Joseph Albert Ernst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : United States
ISBN : IND:30000035019797
Author : United States. Department of the Interior. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : CORNELL:31924070937192
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011832446
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : American literature
ISBN : PSU:000052001260