Actors Of Globalization New York Merchants In Global Trade 1784 1812
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| Author | : Lisa Sturm-Lind |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 2017-12-18 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 900435641X |
The monograph Actors of Globalization portrays a group of New York businessmen engaged in global trade from 1784 to 1812. It follows their businesses around the world and shows how through wit, flexibility, and the help of a worldwide net of business partners the merchants were able to quickly rise to global entrepreneurs speculating on wars, food crises and slave revolts. The ramifications of their commerce were felt at home, where the merchants invested in land and city development, established new financial institutions and contributed to a rising consumer culture. This book brings together global and local history, arguing that private actors played an important role in the economic and social development of the young United States.
| Author | : Elizabeth Kelly Gray |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2022-12-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0190073128 |
Habitual drug use in the United States is at least as old as the nation itself. Habit Forming traces the history of unregulated drug use and dependency before 1914, when the Harrison Narcotic Tax Act limited sales of opiates and cocaine under US law. Many Americans used opiates and other drugs medically and became addicted. Some tried Hasheesh Candy, injected morphine, or visited opium dens, but neither use nor addiction was linked to crime, due to the dearth of restrictive laws. After the Civil War, American presses published extensively about domestic addiction. Later in the nineteenth century, many used cocaine and heroin as medicine. As addiction became a major public health issue, commentators typically sympathized with white, middle-class drug users, while criticizing such use by poor or working-class people and people of color. When habituation was associated with middle-class morphine users, few advocated for restricted drug access. By the 1910s, as use was increasingly associated with poor young men, support for regulations increased. In outlawing users' access to habit-forming drugs at the national level, a public health problem became a larger legal and social problem, one with an enduring influence on American drug laws and their enforcement.
| Author | : Bram Hoonhout |
| Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0820356085 |
Introduction: borderless societies -- The borderland -- Political conflicts -- Rebels and runaways -- The centrality of smuggling -- The web of debt -- Borderless businessmen -- Conclusion: the shape of empire.
| Author | : Lucas Haasis |
| Publisher | : transcript Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 661 |
| Release | : 2022-03-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3839456525 |
Lucas Haasis found a time capsule: A complete mercantile letter archive of the merchant Nicolaus Gottlieb Luetkens who lived in 18th century Hamburg. Luetkens travelled France between 1743-1745 in order to become a successful wholesale merchant. He succeeded in this undertaking via both shrewd business practice and proficient skills in the practice of letter writing. Based on this unique discovery, in this microhistorical study Lucas Haasis examines the crucial steps and activities of a mercantile establishment phase, the typical letter practices of Early Modern merchants, and the practical principles of persuasion leading to success in the 18th century.
| Author | : Meike von Brescius |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2022-05-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004504745 |
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. This book examines the European commercial landscape of the early China trade, c.1700–1750. It looks at the foundational period of Sino-European commerce and explores a world of private enterprise beneath the surface of the official East India Company structures. Using rich private trade records, it analyses the making of pan-European markets, distribution networks and patterns of investment that together reveal a new geography of a trading system previously studied mostly at Canton. By considering the interloping activities of British-born merchants working for the smaller East India Companies, the book uncovers the commercial practices and cross-Company collaborations, both legal and illicit, that sustained the growth of the China trade: smuggling, wholesale trading, private commissions and the manipulation of Company auctions.
| Author | : Prithi Kanakamedala |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2024-09-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1479833096 |
"Brooklyn has a distinct story in the history of social justice. Explore the rich history of New York City's second largest borough, and the thriving nineteenth-century free Black community that once called it home"--
| Author | : Keith Crook |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2019-12-13 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1684481627 |
The historical moment Forsyth's Italy -- Forsyth's prisons -- The 1813 and the 1816 versions of Forsyth's Italy -- Talking to Italians -- The hidden thoughts of Joseph Forsyth -- Visual arts, architecture, and literature -- The letters of the Forsyth brothers.
| Author | : Tyler Stovall |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 456 |
| Release | : 2022-08-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 069120537X |
The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedom The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also a nation built on African slavery, Native American genocide, and systematic racial discrimination. White Freedom traces the complex relationship between freedom and race from the eighteenth century to today, revealing how being free has meant being white. Tyler Stovall explores the intertwined histories of racism and freedom in France and the United States, the two leading nations that have claimed liberty as the heart of their national identities. He explores how French and American thinkers defined freedom in racial terms and conceived of liberty as an aspect and privilege of whiteness. He discusses how the Statue of Liberty—a gift from France to the United States and perhaps the most famous symbol of freedom on Earth—promised both freedom and whiteness to European immigrants. Taking readers from the Age of Revolution to today, Stovall challenges the notion that racism is somehow a paradox or contradiction within the democratic tradition, demonstrating how white identity is intrinsic to Western ideas about liberty. Throughout the history of modern Western liberal democracy, freedom has long been white freedom. A major work of scholarship that is certain to draw a wide readership and transform contemporary debates, White Freedom provides vital new perspectives on the inherent racism behind our most cherished beliefs about freedom, liberty, and human rights.
| Author | : Yi Wen |
| Publisher | : World Scientific |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2016-05-13 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9814733741 |
The rise of China is no doubt one of the most important events in world economic history since the Industrial Revolution. Mainstream economics, especially the institutional theory of economic development based on a dichotomy of extractive vs. inclusive political institutions, is highly inadequate in explaining China's rise. This book argues that only a radical reinterpretation of the history of the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West (as incorrectly portrayed by the institutional theory) can fully explain China's growth miracle and why the determined rise of China is unstoppable despite its current 'backward' financial system and political institutions. Conversely, China's spectacular and rapid transformation from an impoverished agrarian society to a formidable industrial superpower sheds considerable light on the fundamental shortcomings of the institutional theory and mainstream 'blackboard' economic models, and provides more-accurate reevaluations of historical episodes such as Africa's enduring poverty trap despite radical political and economic reforms, Latin America's lost decades and frequent debt crises, 19th century Europe's great escape from the Malthusian trap, and the Industrial Revolution itself.
| Author | : Manuel Perez Garcia |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2017-12-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9811040532 |
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Rethinking the ways global history is envisioned and conceptualized in diverse countries such as China, Japan, Mexico or Spain, this collections considers how global issues are connected with our local and national communities. It examines how the discipline had evolved in various historiographies, from Anglo Saxon to southern European, and its emergence in Asia with the rapid development of the Chinese economy motivation to legitimate the current uniqueness of the history and economy of the nation. It contributes to the revitalization of the field of global history in Chinese historiography, which have been dominated by national narratives and promotes a debate to open new venues in which important features such as scholarly mobility, diversity and internationalization are firmly rooted, putting aside national specificities. Dealing with new approaches on the use of empirical data by framing the proper questions and hypotheses and connecting western and eastern sources, this text opens a new forum of discussion on how global history has penetrated in western and eastern historiographies, moving the pivotal axis of analysis from national perspectives to open new venues of global history.
