History, Empires & Change: Sources & Perspectives - eBooks

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History, Empires & Change: Sources & Perspectives

This category collects works that trace commercial and imperial history through primary sources, narratives, and scholarly analyses. The books examine trade rivalry, merchant shipping, colonial economies, and the movement of goods and peoples across continents. They offer perspectives on how commerce shaped empires and how political change affected markets.

The works cohere around themes of global connection and conflict. From Daniel Defoe's trade pamphlets to W. S. Lindsay's multivolume shipping history, each book reveals the interplay between commercial interests and national power. This category differs from Industry, Work & Public Finance by foregrounding the historical and geopolitical dimensions of trade rather than the internal mechanisms of markets or labor.

Anglo-Dutch Rivalry During the First Half of the Seventeenth CenturyGeorge Edmundson's Ford Lectures use diplomatic records to dissect the commercial tensions that led to war, making it a key source for understanding early modern imperialism.

The Old East IndiamenE. Keble Chatterton's logbook-style account offers vivid detail on ship design, crew life, and combat, bringing the East India Company's maritime world to life.

Papers Relating to an Act of the Assembly of the Province of New-York For Encouragement of the Indian TradeCadwallader Colden's compilation of colonial documents reveals the legal language of fur-trade regulation and Iroquois diplomacy, providing a primary-source window into 18th-century commerce.

Represented authors include Edmundson, Chatterton, Colden, Defoe, William Coxe, and Robert Chambers. Settings span Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Periods range from the 15th to 19th centuries. Subjects include shipping, slavery in the African trade, Scottish mercantile history, and the Great Exhibition of 1851.

Classification limitation: Some works in this category contain economic analysis; they are placed here for their historical narrative rather than theoretical focus.