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So great a proffit : how the East Indies trade transformed Anglo-American capitalism / James R. Fichter.

By: Fichter, James R.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010General Notes: Available through the EBSCO e-book Collection, which can be found on the Davenport University Library database page.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: 1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations, map.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780674056329; 0674056329.Subject(s): United States -- Commerce -- Asia | Asia -- Commerce -- United States | United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Great Britain | Great Britain -- Foreign economic relations -- United States | Capitalism -- United States -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 382.0973/05 Online resources: Access full-text materials at no charge:
Contents:
Revolution -- America sails East -- Commerce in a world at war -- America's re-export boom -- Merchant millionaires -- Beyond the British empire -- The India trade -- America's China and Pacific trade -- Death of the India monopoly -- American capital and corporations.
Summary: "This remarkable book shows the crucial role of American traders in global commerce during years of general war, and makes a bold revisionist argument for the role of the capital the merchants accumulated in the g̀reat divergence' between North Atlantic societies and the rest of the world. Based on wide research and full of lively writing about a remarkable variety of places and people, it will be read with profit and pleasure by all students of the origins of the modern world."-- Book jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Available through the EBSCO e-book Collection, which can be found on the Davenport University Library database page.

Revolution -- America sails East -- Commerce in a world at war -- America's re-export boom -- Merchant millionaires -- Beyond the British empire -- The India trade -- America's China and Pacific trade -- Death of the India monopoly -- American capital and corporations.

"This remarkable book shows the crucial role of American traders in global commerce during years of general war, and makes a bold revisionist argument for the role of the capital the merchants accumulated in the g̀reat divergence' between North Atlantic societies and the rest of the world. Based on wide research and full of lively writing about a remarkable variety of places and people, it will be read with profit and pleasure by all students of the origins of the modern world."-- Book jacket.

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