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.
Part of the series "Early American Places"
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