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Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700â1776)
Series: - Library of Economic History, Volume: 18
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This title is published in Open Access with the support of the University of Helsinki Library.
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.
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.
Jeremy Land, Ph.D., (2019), Georgia State University, is currently a postdoctoral researcher in economic history at University of Gothenburg and a visiting researcher at the University of Helsinki. His research focuses on the global maritime economy, war, and state capacity in the early modern era.
" Colonial Ports offers an accessible overview of eighteenth-century commercial networks in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. Nonspecialists and undergraduates will welcome its clear language, argumentation, and historical background, while specialists will gravitate to its exhaustive quantitative analysis and data tables on the contours of this trade. "
---- Grant Kleiser, Columbia University, in: H-Early-America February, 2024
"Land offers a convincing material explanation of the cause of American independence. Tight, well-organized, and quite readable, Landâs book presents an argument that is both straightforward and sophisticated. He successfully argues against several prior interpretations of the political economy of eighteenth-century British North America." - Benjamin L. Carp, Brooklyn College, in: EH.Net (September 2023)
---- Grant Kleiser, Columbia University, in: H-Early-America February, 2024
"Land offers a convincing material explanation of the cause of American independence. Tight, well-organized, and quite readable, Landâs book presents an argument that is both straightforward and sophisticated. He successfully argues against several prior interpretations of the political economy of eighteenth-century British North America." - Benjamin L. Carp, Brooklyn College, in: EH.Net (September 2023)
Acknowledgments
List of Tables and Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction
â1âHistorical Background
â2âOutline
1âThe Port Complex of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia
â1âThe Regional Complex of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia
â2âComplementarity and Competition
â3âImperial Constraints and Limits
â4âConclusion
2âMerchants and Mercantile Networks
â1âMerchants and Communities
â2âLocal Capital Investment in Trade
â3âNetworks and the Regional Complex
â4âMechanisms of Trade
â5âMerchants and the Political Economy
â6âConclusion
3âTrade and Commodities
â1âImports
â2âEast Asian Goods
â3âExports
â4âSugar
â5âMechanisms of Consumption and Demand
â6âConclusion
4âInter-colonial Trade
â1âQuantifying and Defining Inter-colonial Trade
â2âCoastal and North American Trade
â3âWest Indies Trade
â4âConclusion
5âTrans-imperial Trade
â1âDefining Trans-imperial Trade
â2âLegal(?) Trade
â3âSmuggling
â4âSupplying Demand for East Asian Goods
â5âTranscending Imperial Borders in the Colonial Arena
â6âLisbonâPhiladelphia Trade
â7âConclusion
6ââSalutary Neglectâ and the Origins of Independence
â1ââSalutary Neglectâ and Imperial Control
â2âColonial Merchants as Competitors with English Merchants
â3âThe Seven Yearsâ War and the 1760s
â4âEconomic Implications of Renewed Imperial Control
â5âRegional Merchants and Collective Resistance
â6âBritainâs Military Occupation of Boston and the Sparks of War
â7âConclusion
Conclusion: Revolution or a Battle for Free Trade?
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
List of Tables and Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction
â1âHistorical Background
â2âOutline
1âThe Port Complex of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia
â1âThe Regional Complex of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia
â2âComplementarity and Competition
â3âImperial Constraints and Limits
â4âConclusion
2âMerchants and Mercantile Networks
â1âMerchants and Communities
â2âLocal Capital Investment in Trade
â3âNetworks and the Regional Complex
â4âMechanisms of Trade
â5âMerchants and the Political Economy
â6âConclusion
3âTrade and Commodities
â1âImports
â2âEast Asian Goods
â3âExports
â4âSugar
â5âMechanisms of Consumption and Demand
â6âConclusion
4âInter-colonial Trade
â1âQuantifying and Defining Inter-colonial Trade
â2âCoastal and North American Trade
â3âWest Indies Trade
â4âConclusion
5âTrans-imperial Trade
â1âDefining Trans-imperial Trade
â2âLegal(?) Trade
â3âSmuggling
â4âSupplying Demand for East Asian Goods
â5âTranscending Imperial Borders in the Colonial Arena
â6âLisbonâPhiladelphia Trade
â7âConclusion
6ââSalutary Neglectâ and the Origins of Independence
â1ââSalutary Neglectâ and Imperial Control
â2âColonial Merchants as Competitors with English Merchants
â3âThe Seven Yearsâ War and the 1760s
â4âEconomic Implications of Renewed Imperial Control
â5âRegional Merchants and Collective Resistance
â6âBritainâs Military Occupation of Boston and the Sparks of War
â7âConclusion
Conclusion: Revolution or a Battle for Free Trade?
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
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