So Great a Proffit. How the East Indies trade transformed Anglo American capitalism
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- Author(s) Fichter, James R
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2010
- Pages 384pp; illus
- Publisher Harvard University Press
- Place Published Cambridge MA
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with USA trade with China, India, etc, post the American Revolution and the creation of merchant wealth that substantially affected the progress of American capitalism; its affect on British trade, the undermining of the monopoly of the East India Co, etc. Has chapters: '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'