Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: An important contribution to both the new history of colonial British America and revisionist Irish economic and social history, this book assaults well established myths depicting Irish involvement in transatlantic trade as subordinate to narrow British interests...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The correspondence from Greg & Cunningham, the most successful Irish-American trading company during the colonial period, is a remarkable archive for anyone interested in the eighteenth century. These letters cover the first nine months of trade, and present a vivid picture of the transatlantic economy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)