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Internet resources about 18th century economics

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    Web Link American Financial History

    Read about American financial history from the Museum devoted to the subject.

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    Web Link Economic History Abstracts

    This web site's mission is to assist economic historians in sharing information about their work.

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    Web Link Hudson Bay Company History

    From the Hudson Bay Company web site you can read the history of this historic fur company that started over 300 years ago.

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    Web Link Internet Resources for Economic Historians

    Resources for economic historians can be found here. Well annotated links to everything related to economics.

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    Web Link Leeds Petition

    From the Modern History Sourcebook web site, view the petition of the Leeds Woolen Workers (1786). This is against the use of machines.

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    Web Link Letter of Leeds Cloth Merchants

    From the Modern History Sourcebook web site, here is a letter defending the use of machines which appeared in 1791.

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    Web Link Leslie Brock Center

    The Leslie Brock Center for the Study of Colonial Currency contains resources and information on American economics.

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    Web Link McMaster University Archive

    This is the site for understanding the history of economic thought. It includes such authors as Aristotle, Jeremy Betham and Adam Smith.

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    Web Link Bank of England

    This article by Kelly L. Ross Ph.D. discusses the history of the Bank of England. It is a section of the larger article about British coins before the Florin, compared to the French Coins of the Ancient Regime.

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    Web Link The Coins of Colonial and Early America

    This informative web site by Louis Jordan has information and resources about the coins of colonial America and the Early National periosd in United States history.

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    Web Link Defense of Usury

    This defense of the use of Usury (interest) was written by Jeremy Bentham in 1787.

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    Web Link Money and Trade...a Proposal

    A 1705 essay and proposal on supplying more money to the country of England by John Law.

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    Web Link Money in North America

    This is an interesting history of money in North America, from the earliest times to present.

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    Web Link Money Substitutes

    This informative article by Louis Jordan examines the money substitutes used in New Netherlands and Early New York.

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    Web Link U.S. Treasury Secretaries

    Learn who where the Secretaries of the Treasury of the U.S. at the Dept. of the Treasury Web site.

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    Web Link The China Trade

    Learn about the China trade and Rhode Island's involvement, written by Stuart Hale.

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    Web Link East India Trade Essay

    This was a letter by Charles D'Avenant (1697) to John Lord Marquis of Normandy which discusses the implication of the East India trade.

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    Web Link English Fish Trade in the 18th Century

    Learn about the fish Trade off Newfoundland at this site. This page is a part of the Newfoundland Labrador Heritage Web site.

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    Web Link The English Utilitarians

    This is a history of the English Utilitarianism written by Leslie Stephen in 1900. This is volume I on Jeremy Bentham.

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    Web Link Of Commerce by Hume

    This page is Hume's essay on Commerce and its implication and practice in the 18th century.

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    Web Link Free Labor in The American Revolution

    In this essay by Mark A. Lause of the University of Cincinnati, you will discover the role that the labor force played in the American Revolution.

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    Web Link Madrid of the Bourbons, Economy

    Learn about the economic situation in 18th century Madrid under the Bourbons from this site by Jose Luis.

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    Web Link The Political Economy of Adam Smith

    This is a critical essay on the ideas of Adam Smith written by T. E. Cliffe Leslie in 1870. In it, he maintains that "that political economy is not a body of natural laws in the true sense, or of universal and immutable truths, but an assemblage of speculations and doctrines which are the result of a particular history...".

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    Web Link The Slave Trade in Portsmouth

    This article by Valerie Cunningham, examines the slave trade in Portsmouth New Hampshire.

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    Web Link Slaves in the American Maritime Economy

    This short essay by Brendan Foley discusses the slaves involvement in the Maritime economy of America from 1638 to 1865.

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