Merchants and Empire: Trading in Colonial New York

by Cathy Matson

Book Overview

In Merchants and Empire, Cathy Matson examines the economic ideas and behavior of New York City's commercial wholesalers, especially the middling merchants who, as a majority of active traders, affected the character of city commerce over its colonial years. Although less prominent in transatlantic dry goods commerce than the great traders, this middling majority spread dissenting economic ideas and flouted political authority time and again...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801872472
• ISBN13: 9780801872471
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher