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Cloth and the emergence of the Atlantic economy / Robert S. Duplessis The organization of trade and finance in the British-Atlantic economy, 1600-1830 / R. C. Nash Revisiting 1640, or, How the party of commercial expansion lost to the party of political conservation in Spain's Atlantic empire, 1620 1650 / Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert
Although the Chesapeake magnates did not invent the slave trade, which by the mid-17th century had existed in the Atlantic basin for generations, their decision to import slaves to work on tobacco farms reoriented the economy and culture of the southern mainland English colonies. Once established, slavery remained a dominant component of the ...
Jul 24, 2012 · Shepherd and Walton 2010 (originally published in 1972) offers another important overview of the North American colonial economy from the middle of the 17th century to the American Revolution, with emphasis on the later years. It uses quantitative analysis to prove that productivity was increasing not so much because of technological change but ...
But, for reasons that will be seen, it is accommodated by, and indeed constitutive of, the workings of a market system. The process by which these institutional and attitudinal changes are brought about constitutes a grand theme—perhaps the grand theme—of economic history from roughly the 5th to the 18th and even into the 19th century in ...
The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries is a collection of essays focusing on the expansion, elaboration, and increasing integration of the economy of the Atlantic basin - comprising parts of Europe, West Africa, and the Americas - during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
CLASS, STATUS, AND ORDER. All human societies require systems of classification. These systems straddle the imagined boundary between the ideal and the real, creating a standard by which society can assess, judge, and, if necessary, punish. Early modern Europeans inherited from their medieval ancestors a system of classification called the ...
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Beginning in the 17th Century, millions of people were captured from West Africa and trafficked to U.S. colonies, to become an unpaid labor force for the growing plantation economy. The system was maintained by birth, so children born to enslaved persons were automatically considered property—or “chattel”—of the enslaver.
