An important contribution to both the new history of colonial British America and revisionist Irish economic and social history, this book assaults well established myths depicting Irish involvement in transatlantic trade as subordinate to narrow British interests. Ireland's vigorous trade with British America was essentially inter-colonial commerce, contributing to commercial development at home, the West Indian islands, and the North American mainland. In colonial ports from Philadelphia to Bridgetown, Barbados, overseas Irish merchant communities managed a trade that took its lead from entrepreneurs in Dublin, Cork, and Belfast with ties to Irish agriculture and manufacturing. As well as commodities and the men who moved them, the book examines the formation of Irish-colonial trade, its place in the mercantilist framework, the structure and financing of trade, the relationship between transatlantic trade and emigration, and the impact of the American Revolution on the commercial relationship between Ireland and America.
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An important contribution to both the new history of colonial British America and revisionist Irish economic and social history, this book assaults well established myths depicting Irish involvement in transatlantic trade as subordinate to narrow British interests.
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English navigation legislation between 1660 and 1731, the formative period for Irish-American commerce, attempted to reconcile the mercantilist ambitions of the mother country with Irish demands for participation in North Atlantic trade. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, West Indies, North American, West Indian, Great Britain, New England, American Revolution, British America, British Isles, Middle Colonies, British Parliament, Acts of Navigation, Irish Parliament, Arthur Young, United States, Waddell Cunningham, Linen Board, Linen Hall, New London, English Parliament, Irish House of Commons, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Stamp Act, British Caribbean New!
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English navigation legislation between 1660 and 1731, the formative period for Irish-American commerce, attempted to reconcile the mercantilist ambitions of the mother country with Irish demands for participation in North Atlantic trade. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, West Indies, North American, West Indian, Great Britain, New England, American Revolution, British America, British Isles, Middle Colonies, British Parliament, Acts of Navigation, Irish Parliament, Arthur Young, United States, Waddell Cunningham, Linen Board, Linen Hall, New London, English Parliament, Irish House of Commons, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Stamp Act, British Caribbean New!
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- Bristol and the Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century by Kenneth Morgan on page 123, and Back Matter
- The New York Irish by Ronald H. Bayor in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Warp of Ulster's Past: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Irish Linen Industry, 1700-1920 by Marilyn Cohen on page 67
- Bibliography of Imperial, Colonial, and Commonwealth History since 1600 (The Royal Historical Society Bibliography: the History of Britain, Ireland, and the British Overseas) by Andrew Porter on page 314
- Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660-1800 (New Studies in Economic and Social History) by Kenneth Morgan in Back Matter
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