001478884 000__ 04539nam\a22009135i\4500 001478884 001__ 1478884 001478884 003__ DE-B1597 001478884 005__ 20231101184815.0 001478884 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001478884 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001478884 008__ 190708s2012\\\\mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001478884 020__ $$a9780674056329 001478884 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674056329$$2doi 001478884 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)457614 001478884 035__ $$a(OCoLC)979752465 001478884 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001478884 0410_ $$aeng 001478884 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001478884 050_4 $$aHF3118 -- F53 2010eb 001478884 072_7 $$aHIS037000$$2bisacsh 001478884 08204 $$a382.0973/05 001478884 084__ $$aQF 541$$2rvk 001478884 1001_ $$aFichter, James R.,$$eauthor. 001478884 24510 $$aSo Great a Proffit /$$cJames R. Fichter. 001478884 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c[2012] 001478884 264_4 $$c©2010 001478884 300__ $$a1 online resource 001478884 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001478884 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001478884 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001478884 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001478884 50500 $$tFrontmatter --$$tContents --$$tIntroduction --$$tchapter one. Revolution --$$tchapter two. America Sails East --$$tchapter three. Commerce in a World at War --$$tchapter four. America's Re- export Boom --$$tchapter five. Merchant Millionaires --$$tchapter six. Beyond the British Empire --$$tchapter seven. The India Trade --$$tchapter eight. America's China and Pacific Trade --$$tchapter nine. Death of the India Monopoly --$$tchapter ten. American Capital and Corporations --$$tConclusion --$$tArchival. Sources. Abbreviations. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index --$$tArchival Sources --$$tAbbreviations --$$tNotes --$$tAcknowledgments --$$tIndex 001478884 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001478884 520__ $$aIn a work of sweep and ambition, James Fichter explores how American trade proved pivotal to the evolution of capitalism in the United States and helped to shape the course of the British Empire. Before the American Revolution, colonial merchants were part of a trading network that spanned the globe. After 1783, U.S. merchants began trading in the East Indies independently, creating a new class of investor-capitalists and the first generation of American millionaires. Such wealth was startling in a country where, a generation earlier, the most prosperous Americans had been Southern planters. This mercantile elite brought its experience and affluence to other sectors of the economy, helping to concentrate capital and create wealth, and paving the way for the modern business corporation. Conducted on free trade principles, American trade in Asia was so extensive that it undermined the monopoly of the British East India Company and forced Britain to open its own free trade to Asia. The United States and the British Empire thus converged around shared, Anglo-American free-trade ideals and financial capitalism in Asia. American traders also provided a vital link to the Atlantic world for Dutch Java and French Mauritius, and were at the vanguard of Western contact with Polynesia and the Pacific Northwest. Based on an impressive array of sources from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the United States, this pathbreaking book revolutionizes our understanding of the early American economy in a global context and the relationship between the young nation and its former colonial ­master. 001478884 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001478884 546__ $$aIn English. 001478884 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. 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