Empire of Commerce: The Closing of the Mississippi and the Opening of Atlantic Trade 0813951232, 9780813951232

Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire 9780300189445

Abigail L. Swingen’s insightful study provides a new framework for understanding the origins of the British Empire while

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Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621-1713 9780814749425

Throughout history the British Atlantic has often been depicted as a series of well-ordered colonial ports that function

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The Culture and Commerce of the Early American Novel: Reading the Atlantic World-System 9780271035024

Taking his cue from Philadelphia-born novelist Charles Brockden Brown’s Annals of Europe and America, which contends tha

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The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade: British policies, practices and representations of naval coercion 9781784992361

The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade saw the British Empire turn naval power and moral outrage against a branch o

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The Ọyọ Empire, c.1600-c.1836: a West African imperialism in the era of the Atlantic slave trade 9780751200065

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The bonds of family: Slavery, commerce and culture in the British Atlantic world 9781526129499

Tracing the activities of a single extended family – the Hibberts – this book explores how slavery impacted on the socia

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The Eastern Iron Trade of the Roman Empire 9781463229566

The appearance is given in the Roman text, Historia Naturalis, that the Seres were a people who imported iron and silk t

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The Spirit of Hispanism: Commerce, Culture, and Identity across the Atlantic, 1875-1936 9780268106935

In the late nineteenth century, Spanish intellectuals and entrepreneurs became captivated with Hispanism, a movement of

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The Spirit of Hispanism: Commerce, Culture, and Identity across the Atlantic, 1875–1936 0268106932, 9780268106935

In the late nineteenth century, Spanish intellectuals and entrepreneurs became captivated with Hispanism, a movement of

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Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley

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