Before the American Revolution, the people who lived in British North America were not just colonists; they were also imperial subjects. To think of eighteenth-century New Yorkers as Britons rather than incipient Americans allows us fresh investigations into their world. How was the British Empire experienced by those who lived at its margins? How did the mundane affairs of ordinary New Yorkers affect the culture at the center of an enormous commercial empire?
"Dangerous Economies" is a history of New York culture and commerce in the first two thirds of the eighteenth century, when...
Before the American Revolution, the people who lived in British North America were not just colonists; they were also imperial subjects. To think o...
