The Overseas Trade of British America: A Narrative History – PDF

A comprehensive history of early American trade and its impact on the American economy.

According to Nicholas Canny, author of Imagining Ireland’s Pasts, Thomas M. Truxes is the perfect guide to understanding how American colonial merchants built prosperous communities through both legal and illegal trade, which was deeply intertwined with slavery and the slave trade.

Historian Thomas M. Truxes presents a concise and compelling account of the three-hundred-year history of British America’s overseas trade. Beginning in Tudor England during the sixteenth century, Atlantic trade played a pivotal role in the survival, economic growth, and ultimate prosperity of British America. This trade also brought together distinct regions with unique identities and economic structures, weaving them into a single fabric.

Truxes emphasizes the indispensable contribution of enslaved Africans to colonial American prosperity. He also explains how the colonial economy relied heavily on free and open markets. Lastly, he explores how Atlantic trade played a crucial role in the survival of the young United States during the American Revolution.

ISBN: 978-0274747856, 978-0300159882, 978-0300161304

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