The Overseas Trade of British America: A Narrative History

A sweeping history of early American trade and the foundation of the American economy “We could have no better guide than Truxes explaining incisively how American colonial merchants enriched their communities through licit and illicit trade, and how this enrichment was the product of slavery and the slave trade.”—Nicholas Canny, author of Imagining Ireland’s Pasts In a single, readily digestible, coherent narrative, historian Thomas M. Truxes presents the three-hundred-year history of the ...