The privileges of independence : neomercantilism and the American Revolution / John E. Crowley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crowley, John E., 1943-

Series:

Early America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.

United States.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects.

Mercantile system--United States--History--18th century.

Mercantile system.

Mercantile system--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--18th century.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Colonies--Commerce--History--18th century.

Great Britain--Colonies--Commerce--America.

United States--Commerce--Great Britain.

Great Britain--Commerce--United States.

United States--Commerce--History--18th century.

Economics.

British colonies.

Commerce.

Politics and government.

America.

Mercantile system--United States.

United States--Commerce--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 215 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1993.

Summary:

Because the establishment of the United States required independence from a commercial empire, historians have often identified the American Revolution with liberal political economy and a repudiation of Old World mercantilism. But in The Privileges of Independence, John Crowley argues that the colonies' successful revolt did not mean they wished to end their privileged commercial dependence on Great Britain. From the 1760s through the mid-1790s, in fact, Anglo-American political economists grappled with the transition from a de jure to a de facto economic dependence of the new states on their former mother country. - Jacket flap.

Contents:

Introduction: Mercantilism in the Enlightenment

1. The Prosperity of Colonial Dependence

2. Commercial Monopoly and Parliamentary Sovereignty

3. Commercial Diplomacy during the Revolution

4. The Recolonization of Anglo-American Trade

5. The Madisonian Definition of National Economic Interests

6. Commerce and the Philadelphia Constitution

7. Commercial Privilege in the New Republic

Conclusion: Hamiltonian Liberalism and the Jay Treaty.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-208) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Crowley, John E., 1943- Privileges of independence.

ISBN:

0801846676

9780801846670

OCLC:

27814916

Publisher Number:

9780801846670