The overseas trade of British America : a narrative history

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 la...

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Auteur principal : Truxes Thomas M. (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : The overseas trade of British America : a narrative history / Thomas M. Truxes
Publié : New Haven (Conn.), London : Yale University Press , C 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIII-449 p.)
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Résumé : 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.
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ISBN : 978-0-300-15988-2