Thursday, January 15, 2009

Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York

Thomas Truxes, senior lecturer inthe history department at Trinity University, as new book which looks fascinating - Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York.
“This enthralling book is the first to uncover the story of New York City merchants who engaged in forbidden trade with the enemy before and during the Seven Years’ War (also known as the French and Indian War). Ignoring British prohibitions designed to end North America’s wartime trade with the French, New York’s merchant elite conducted a thriving business in the French West Indies, insisting that their behavior was protected by long practice and British commercial law. But the government in London viewed it as treachery, and its subsequent efforts to discipline North American commerce inflamed the colonists.

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