The United States in World HistoryRoutledge, 27. sep. 2006 - 192 síður In this concise, accessible introductory survey of the history of the United States from 1790 to the present day, Edward J. Davies examines key themes in the evolution of America from colonial rule to international supremacy. Focusing particularly on those currents within US history that have influenced the rest of the world, the book is neatly divided into three parts which examine the Atlantic world, 1700–1800, the US and the industrial world, and the emergence of America as a global power. The United States in World History explores such key issues as:
Part of our successful Themes in World History series, The United States in World History presents a new way of examining the United States, and reveals how concepts that originated in America's definition of itself as a nation – concepts such as capitalism, republicanism and race – have had supranational impact across the world. |
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... Caribbean. New England ships, principally from Newport, Rhode Island and Boston, Massachusetts, vigorously participated in the business of trafficking human cargo. Smaller oceanside ports such as Savannah, Georgia depended on New ...
... Caribbean to New England ports. There molasses served as the basis for rum making, a major export of New England, while naval stores supplied shipbuilders with essential products for ship construction, the central business in New ...
... Caribbean markets and they brought African labor to the Carolina and Georgia coasts. The African labor provided the muscle for the rice plantations. Even more important, labor from West Africa incorporated their own rich knowledge of ...
... Caribbean and the port's growing hinterland that produced goods for the Caribbean islands. Merchants in Maryland and Virginia also began to build their own oceangoing fleets after 1750. These carried grain and timber to the Caribbean ...
... in North America and the Caribbean. Beginning in the early eighteenth century, the sharp rise in the demand for sugar and production of other staples such as rice and tobacco accelerated the growth of the slave trade and pushed hundreds.