Merchants and Empire Trading in Colonial New York

Name: Merchants and Empire Trading in Colonial New York
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ISBN: 9780801872471

ISBN-10: 0801872472

ISBN-13: 9780801872471

Edition: 1997

Authors: Cathy Matson, Jack P. Greene, J. R. Pole

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In Merchants and Empire, Cathy Matson examines the economic ideas and behavior of New York City's commercial wholesalers, especially the middling merchants who, as a majority of active traders, affected the character of city commerce over its colonial years. Although less prominent in transatlantic dry goods commerce than the great traders, this middling majority spread dissenting economic ideas and flouted political authority time and again when the benefits to their interests were clear. Indeed, middling or lesser merchants fashioned a plausible alternative to mercantilism, and contributed significantly to the challenges Americans offered to British rule in the final colonial years.

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 3/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 472
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Engagements with Economic Freedom



Establishing a Port, 1620-1664



Where Returns Were the Richest: The Transatlantic Trade, 1664-1700



"Where There is the Least Hindrance": The West Indian and Coastal Trade, 1664-1700



Creating a Regional Economy, 1664-1700



Encounters with Imperial Maturity



The Spur of Success: Ideology and Experience in Transatlantic Trade, 1700-1760



The Prospects for Satisfying Appetite: The Transforming Qualities of West Indian and Coastal Trade, 1700-1760



The Promise of the Domestic Economy: Expanding Internal Trade and City Manufacturing, 1700-1760



The Vagaries of War and Depression, 1754-1770


Conclusion


App. A: Tables and Graphs



Bills of Exchange


Notes


Essay on Sources


Index