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Empire at the Periphery - British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621-1713 (Paperback)
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Empire at the Periphery - British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621-1713 (Paperback)
Series: Early American Places
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Throughout history the British Atlantic has often been depicted as
a series of well-ordered colonial ports that functioned as nodes of
Atlantic shipping, where orderliness reflected the effectiveness of
the regulatory apparatus constructed to contain Atlantic commerce.
Colonial ports were governable places where British vessels, and
only British vessels, were to deliver English goods in exchange for
colonial produce. Yet behind these sanitized depictions lay another
story, one about the porousness of commercial regulation, the
informality and persistent illegality of exchanges in the British
Empire, and the endurance of a culture of cross-national
cooperation in the Atlantic that had been forged in the first
decades of European settlement and still resonated a century later.
In Empire at the Periphery, Christian J. Koot examines the networks
that connected British settlers in New York and the Caribbean and
Dutch traders in the Netherlands and in the Dutch colonies in North
America and the Caribbean, demonstrating that these interimperial
relationships formed a core part of commercial activity in the
early Atlantic World, operating alongside British trade. Koot
provides unique consideration of how local circumstances shaped
imperial development, reminding us that empires consisted not only
of elites dictating imperial growth from world capitals, but also
of ordinary settlers in far-flung colonial outposts, who often had
more in common with-and a greater reliance on-people from foreign
empires who shared their experiences of living at the edge of a
fragile, transitional world.
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