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Title: Citizens of the World : London Merchants and the Integration of the British Atlantic Community, 1735-1785 by David Hancock ISBN: 0-521-62942-X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 13 September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Who knew economic history could be this much fun?
Comment: "Citizens" is a vivid, readable portrait of a group of men who, by virtue of their merchant enterprises, helped to shape the destiny of the American colonies in the 18th century. The author, while not stinting on historic detail, manages to squeeze in enough lively anecdotes about the men, their times, and their lives, to make "the Associates" human -- and utterly fascinating.
Rating: 5
Summary: A striking account of 23 successful London merchants
Comment: David Hancock has written a striking account of the careers of
twenty-three very successful London merchants who invested together
in several particularly challenging and rewarding branches of
British overseas trade in the eighteenth century. His masterful
study is based on intense and imaginative research in Britain,
the continent, the United States and the West Indies. From his
rich findings, he has developed a thoughtful and probing treatment
of topics such as the wholesale slave trade, the Scots element
in the City of London and the large government contractors in the
Seven Years War. His achievement is most impressive.
Jacob M. Price, University of Michigan
(from the dust jacket)
Rating: 5
Summary: Something for everyone interested in 18th-century history
Comment: This fascinating book has something in it for almost everyone
interested in eighteenth-century history. Business historians
will find keen analysis of the techniques that a remarkable group
of entrepreneurs used to propel themselves from the periphery to
the center of Britain's imperial economy. Cultural historians
will acquire new insights into what it meant to be British at the
moment that identity was being forged. Students of British and
American history in general will discover how intricately social
ambition, commerce, war, and slavery interacted in the construction
of the first empire. And anyone at all who admires intricate
argument, imaginative research, and stylish prose will find "Citizens
of the World" a delight.
Fred Anderson, University of Colorado at Boulder
(from the dust jacket)
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Title: The British Atlantic World 1500-1800 by David Armitage, Michael J. Braddick ISBN: 0333963415 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 09 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Long Argument: English Puritanism and the Shaping of New England Culture, 1570-1700 by Stephen Foster ISBN: 0807845833 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Natives and Newcomers: The Cultural Origins of North America by James Axtell ISBN: 019513771X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: American Colonies (The Penguin History of the United States) by Alan Taylor, Eric Foner ISBN: 0142002100 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City During the Nineteenth Century by Mary P. Ryan ISBN: 0520216601 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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