Unravelled Dreams: Silk and the Atlantic World, 1500-1840

ISBN-13: 9781108418287 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 500 str.

Ben Marsh

Opis

Reveals how commodity failure, as much as success, can shed light on aspirations, environment, and economic life in colonial societies.

Recenzje

'… a titanic work … [a] masterpiece.' José María Luque Pecci, EH.net (Economic History Association)

Spis treści

List of figures; List of colour plates; List of maps; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Prologue; Part I. Emergence: 2. Spain and New Spain; 3. England and Virginia; 4. France and New France; Part II. Persistence; 5. Persistence; 6. Lower South: South Carolina and Georgia; 7. New England; Part III. Convergence; 8. Convergence; 9. Pennsylvania and sericultural revolution; 10. Silk production in the wake of revolution; 11. Epilogue; Selected bibliography; Index.