By the American Revolution, the farmers and city-dwellers of British America had achieved, individually and collectively, considerable prosperity. The nature and extent of that success are still unfolding. In this first comprehensive assessment of where research on prerevolutionary economy stands, what it seeks to achieve, and how it might best proceed, the authors discuss those areas in which traditional work remains to be done and address new possibilities for a 'new economic history.'
By the American Revolution, the farmers and city-dwellers of British America had achieved, individually and collectively, considerable prosperity. The...
Intending at first simply to do further research on the mid-seventeenth-century -sugar revolution- in Barbados, Russell Menard traveled to the island. But once there, he quickly found many discrepancies between the historical understanding of the way in which this -revolution- fueled the institution of slavery and the actual, quotidian, records documenting the prominence of slavery on the island even before sugar spurred its economic growth. In Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados, Menard reveals that black slaveryis emergence in Barbados...
Intending at first simply to do further research on the mid-seventeenth-century -sugar revolution- in Barbados, Russell Menard traveled to the isla...
