The Impact and Legacy of Eric Williams's Trailblazing Work
Reexamining a seminal work on British capitalism and Caribbean slavery and its continuing reverberations in the twenty-first century Eric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery (1944), with its insightful and provocative theses about the relationship between Caribbean slavery and the growth of the British economy and the Industrial Revolution, has ......
Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development. During the Revolution, they helped the U.S. negotiate foreign ......
Credit, Taste, and Power in the U.S.-China Tea Trade, 1784-1911
Popular history tells the story of how the tea boycott during the American Revolution caused a transition in American taste from tea to coffee, making the young country a coffee-drinking nation. In truth, Americans did not give up their tea so easily, and the United States grew to be the second-largest importer of tea from China. Diverging from ......
Singapore's transformation from a trading port to a global city offers a compelling case study in long-term economic change. The Economic History of Singapore presents a detailed account of the city-state's evolving economic roles, from regional entrepot in the fourteenth century, to colonial port city in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ......
The Golden Age of Fraternity and Its Legacy of Inequality
Though the industrial revolution pushed Americans into radically new modes of living, working, and organizing, patriarchy and white supremacy survived in the new institutions of the industrial economy. Fraternal orders flourished so spectacularly between the Civil War and World War I that this era-the peak of the industrial revolution-is known as ......
Capitalism and Social Transformation in the Eastern Mediterranean
Between the 1830s and 1930s, companies established by Beirut-based businessmen emerged among the largest shareholders in major British manufacturing and trading companies. These companies transformed from small family partnerships to large shareholder corporations that wielded significant influence across the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe. ......
Capitalism and Social Transformation in the Eastern Mediterranean
Between the 1830s and 1930s, companies established by Beirut-based businessmen emerged among the largest shareholders in major British manufacturing and trading companies. These companies transformed from small family partnerships to large shareholder corporations that wielded significant influence across the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe. ......
This second installment in a planned four-volume series chronicles the saga of one of the most rural and rustic regions of coastal Louisiana-Bayou DuLarge. In a story that has its origin centuries ago, Hard Scrabble to Hallelujah, Volume 2, with its thousands of photos, maps, and images, traces a legacy of perseverance and faith by the notable ......
Capitalism during the American colonial era was an economic system known primarily for dispossessing and exploiting Indigenous peoples. Some Indigenous nations, however, learned to use its primary features--wealth accumulation, private investment, and a globalized marketplace--to strengthen their families and defend their communities. The ......
