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2 days ago · By the late 17th century, Virginia's export economy was largely based on tobacco, and new, richer settlers came in to take up large portions of land, build large plantations and import indentured servants and slaves.
- United States
4 days ago · 1679 Salem house, size 24'x18', to be built for £12. 1679 Boston house, size 34'x20', to be built for £130. 1733 Record describes a 16x22 dwelling house to be built in Cambridge MA for £61and a 20x24 house for £65.The latter ended up 4 feet wider than planned and cost £80 including labor.
- Marie Concannon
- 2012
2 days ago · Economy. The continuing economic decline of the town, caused largely by a falling off in the wool and cloth trades, led Leland to remark that 'there was good cloth making at Beverley but that is now much decayed'. (fn. 1) The decline was quickened by the suppression of St. John's college. When in 1599 Beverley was discharged from payment of the ...
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3 hours ago · Politics portal. v. t. e. The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1765 to 1783
2 days ago · Change in per capita GDP of France, 1820–2018. Figures are inflation-adjusted to 2011 International dollars. The economic history of France involves major events and trends, including the elaboration and extension of the seigneurial economic system (including the enserfment of peasants) in the medieval Kingdom of France, the development of the French colonial empire in the early modern ...
4 days ago · The Dutch Slave Trade 1500-1850. This is a short book on what turns out to be a rather bigger subject than might have been expected from the title; not because the Dutch slave trade was so important, but because Emmer uses it as an entry to a wide range of issues concerning the Atlantic slave trade in general and its historiography.
4 days ago · Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, ISBN: 9780230203402; 288pp.; Price: £55.00. The Land Question in Britain, 1750–1950, is that rare collection of essays which is more than the sum of its parts; 14 essays by different authors, all of which connect with each other to reveal a hidden picture of a topic that has inexplicably dropped from view.
