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Author : Philip L. White
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1485 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Beekman Mercantile Papers, 1746-1799 written by Philip L. White and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (118 download)
Download or read book The Beekman Mercantile Papers, 1746-1799 written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Dickson
Publisher : Academia Press
ISBN 13 : 9038210221
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Irish and Scottish Mercantile Networks in Europe and Overseas in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries written by David Dickson and published by Academia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions in this collection of essays make an important step in reconstructing the history of the Irish and Scottish mercantile diasporas in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Author : United States. Naval History Division
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1518 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Naval Documents of the American Revolution written by United States. Naval History Division and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of the preceding volumes - the first of which was published in 1964 - this work synthesizes edited documents, including correspondence, ship logs, muster rolls, orders, and newspaper accounts, that provide a comprehensive understanding of the war at sea in the spring of 1778. The editors organize this wide array of texts chronologically by theater and incorporate French, Italian, and Spanish transcriptions with English translations throughout.
Author : Jonathan Levy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674071123
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Freaks of Fortune written by Jonathan Levy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the early nineteenth century, “risk” was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortune tells the story of how the modern concept of risk emerged in the United States. Born on the high seas, risk migrated inland and became essential to the financial management of an inherently uncertain capitalist future. Focusing on the hopes and anxieties of ordinary people, Jonathan Levy shows how risk developed through the extraordinary growth of new financial institutions—insurance corporations, savings banks, mortgage-backed securities markets, commodities futures markets, and securities markets—while posing inescapable moral questions. For at the heart of risk’s rise was a new vision of freedom. To be a free individual, whether an emancipated slave, a plains farmer, or a Wall Street financier, was to take, assume, and manage one’s own personal risk. Yet this often meant offloading that same risk onto a series of new financial institutions, which together have only recently acquired the name “financial services industry.” Levy traces the fate of a new vision of personal freedom, as it unfolded in the new economic reality created by the American financial system. Amid the nineteenth-century’s waning faith in God’s providence, Americans increasingly confronted unanticipated challenges to their independence and security in the boom and bust chance-world of capitalism. Freaks of Fortune is one of the first books to excavate the historical origins of our own financialized times and risk-defined lives.
Author : Alexander Hamilton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231089456
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (894 download)
Download or read book The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton written by Alexander Hamilton and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editors of v. 3-5: J. Goebel, Jr. and J.H. Smith.
Author : Stephen Conway
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199253757
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book War, State, and Society in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland written by Stephen Conway and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006-01-05 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The middle of the 18th century was a period of continuous warfare as Britain, and therefore Ireland, was involved in conflict with Spain and France. This text explores the impact of these wars and the consequences for the economy, society, politics, religious divisions, and attitudes to empire.
Author : Thomas M. Truxes
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300150431
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Defying Empire written by Thomas M. Truxes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enthralling book is the first to uncover the story of New York City merchants who engaged in forbidden trade with the enemy before and during the Seven Years’ War (also known as the French and Indian War). Ignoring British prohibitions designed to end North America’s wartime trade with the French, New York’s merchant elite conducted a thriving business in the French West Indies, insisting that their behavior was protected by long practice and British commercial law. But the government in London viewed it as treachery, and its subsequent efforts to discipline North American commerce inflamed the colonists.Through fast-moving events and unforgettable characters, historian Thomas M. Truxes brings eighteenth-century New York and the Atlantic world to life. There are spies, street riots, exotic settings, informers, courtroom dramas, interdictions on the high seas, ruthless businessmen, political intrigues, and more. The author traces each phase of the city’s trade with the enemy and details the frustrations that affected both British officials and independent-minded New Yorkers. The first book to focus on New York City during the Seven Years’ War, Defying Empire reveals the important role the city played in hastening the colonies’ march toward revolution.
Author : United States. Naval History Division
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1524 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Naval Documents of the American Revolution: American theatre: May 9, 1776-July 31, 1776 written by United States. Naval History Division and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of the preceding volumes - the first of which was published in 1964 - this work synthesizes edited documents, including correspondence, ship logs, muster rolls, orders, and newspaper accounts, that provide a comprehensive understanding of the war at sea in the spring of 1778. The editors organize this wide array of texts chronologically by theater and incorporate French, Italian, and Spanish transcriptions with English translations throughout.
Author : United States. Naval History Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1680 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Naval Documents of the American Revolution: American theatre: Aug. 1, 1776-Oct. 31, 1776. European theatre: May 26, 1776-Oct. 5, 1776 written by United States. Naval History Division and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of the preceding volumes - the first of which was published in 1964 - this work synthesizes edited documents, including correspondence, ship logs, muster rolls, orders, and newspaper accounts, that provide a comprehensive understanding of the war at sea in the spring of 1778. The editors organize this wide array of texts chronologically by theater and incorporate French, Italian, and Spanish transcriptions with English translations throughout.
Author : Michael J. Jarvis
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807895881
Total Pages : 703 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book In the Eye of All Trade written by Michael J. Jarvis and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an exploration of the oceanic connections of the Atlantic world, Michael J. Jarvis recovers a mariner's view of early America as seen through the eyes of Bermuda's seafarers. The first social history of eighteenth-century Bermuda, this book profiles how one especially intensive maritime community capitalized on its position "in the eye of all trade." Jarvis takes readers aboard small Bermudian sloops and follows white and enslaved sailors as they shuttled cargoes between ports, raked salt, harvested timber, salvaged shipwrecks, hunted whales, captured prizes, and smuggled contraband in an expansive maritime sphere spanning Great Britain's North American and Caribbean colonies. In doing so, he shows how humble sailors and seafaring slaves operating small family-owned vessels were significant but underappreciated agents of Atlantic integration. The American Revolution starkly revealed the extent of British America's integration before 1775 as it shattered interregional links that Bermudians had helped to forge. Reliant on North America for food and customers, Bermudians faced disaster at the conflict's start. A bold act of treason enabled islanders to continue trade with their rebellious neighbors and helped them to survive and even prosper in an Atlantic world at war. Ultimately, however, the creation of the United States ended Bermuda's economic independence and doomed the island's maritime economy.
Author : Thomas M. Truxes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521526166
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Irish-American Trade, 1660-1783 written by Thomas M. Truxes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assaults well-established myths depicting Ireland's transatlantic trade as subordinate to British interests.
Author : United States. Naval History Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Naval Documents of the American Revolution: American theatre: Nov. 1, 1776-Dec. 31, 1776. European theatre: Oct. 6, 1776-Dec. 31, 1776. American theatre: Jan. 1, 1777-Feb. 28, 1777 written by United States. Naval History Division and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of the preceding volumes - the first of which was published in 1964 - this work synthesizes edited documents, including correspondence, ship logs, muster rolls, orders, and newspaper accounts, that provide a comprehensive understanding of the war at sea in the spring of 1778. The editors organize this wide array of texts chronologically by theater and incorporate French, Italian, and Spanish transcriptions with English translations throughout.
Author : John McCusker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134703392
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic World written by John McCusker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the leading authorities on trade and finance in the early modern Atlantic world, these fourteen essays, revised and integrated for this volume, share as their common theme the development of the Atlantic economy, especially British America and the Caribbean. Topics treated range from early attempts in medieval England to measure the carrying capacity of ships, through the advent in Renaissance Italy and England of business newspapers that reported on the traffic of ships, cargoes and market prices, to the state of the economy of France over the two hundred years before the French Revolution and of the British West Indies between 1760 and 1790. Included is the story of Thomas Irving who challenged and thwarted the likes of John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
Author : W. E. Minchinton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100087995X
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Growth of English Overseas Trade in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries written by W. E. Minchinton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1969, this book discusses the growth of foreign trade between 1600 and 1775 which brought about a commercial revolution in England. English merchants developed the exchange of manufactured goods for primary products such as tobacco, sugar, cotton and silk. A notable feature of these years was the American orientation of English overseas trade. This expansion of commerce made a decisive contribution to national economic growth. Its implications for the economy as a whole and the process of industrialization are reviewed at length in the substantial introduction.
Author : Joyce D. Goodfriend
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501708031
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Who Should Rule at Home? written by Joyce D. Goodfriend and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Who Should Rule at Home? Joyce D. Goodfriend argues that the high-ranking gentlemen who figure so prominently in most accounts of New York City's evolution from 1664, when the English captured the small Dutch outpost of New Amsterdam, to the eve of American independence in 1776 were far from invincible and that the degree of cultural power they held has been exaggerated. The urban elite experienced challenges to its cultural authority at different times, from different groups, and in a variety of settings. Goodfriend illuminates the conflicts that pitted the privileged few against the socially anonymous many who mobilized their modest resources to creatively resist domination. Critics of orthodox religious practice took to heart the message of spiritual rebirth brought to New York City by the famed evangelist George Whitefield and were empowered to make independent religious choices. Wives deserted husbands and took charge of their own futures. Indentured servants complained or simply ran away. Enslaved women and men carved out spaces where they could control their own lives and salvage their dignity. Impoverished individuals, including prostitutes, chose not to bow to the dictates of the elite, even though it meant being cut off from the sources of charity. Among those who confronted the elite were descendants of the early Dutch settlers; by clinging to their native language and traditional faith they preserved a crucial sense of autonomy.
Author : Kenneth T. Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300182570
Total Pages : 4282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of New York City written by Kenneth T. Jackson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 4282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering an exhaustive range of information about the five boroughs, the first edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence, and selling out its first printing before it was officially published. But much has changed since the volume first appeared in 1995: the World Trade Center no longer dominates the skyline, a billionaire businessman has become an unlikely three-term mayor, and urban regeneration—Chelsea Piers, the High Line, DUMBO, Williamsburg, the South Bronx, the Lower East Side—has become commonplace. To reflect such innovation and change, this definitive, one-volume resource on the city has been completely revised and expanded. The revised edition includes 800 new entries that help complete the story of New York: from Air Train to E-ZPass, from September 11 to public order. The new material includes broader coverage of subject areas previously underserved as well as new maps and illustrations. Virtually all existing entries—spanning architecture, politics, business, sports, the arts, and more—have been updated to reflect the impact of the past two decades. The more than 5,000 alphabetical entries and 700 illustrations of the second edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City convey the richness and diversity of its subject in great breadth and detail, and will continue to serve as an indispensable tool for everyone who has even a passing interest in the American metropolis.
