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Read about American financial history from the Museum devoted to the subject.
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This web site's mission is to assist economic historians in sharing information about their work.
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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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Resources for economic historians can be found here. Well annotated links to everything related to economics.
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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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From the Modern History Sourcebook web site, here is a letter defending the use of machines which appeared in 1791.
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The Leslie Brock Center for the Study of Colonial Currency contains resources and information on American economics.
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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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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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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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This defense of the use of Usury (interest) was written by Jeremy Bentham in 1787.
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A 1705 essay and proposal on supplying more money to the country of England by John Law.
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This is an interesting history of money in North America, from the earliest times to present.
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This informative article by Louis Jordan examines the money substitutes used in New Netherlands and Early New York.
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Learn who where the Secretaries of the Treasury of the U.S. at the Dept. of the Treasury Web site.
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Learn about the China trade and Rhode Island's involvement, written by Stuart Hale.
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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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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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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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This page is Hume's essay on Commerce and its implication and practice in the 18th century.
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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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Learn about the economic situation in 18th century Madrid under the Bourbons from this site by Jose Luis.
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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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This article by Valerie Cunningham, examines the slave trade in Portsmouth New Hampshire.
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This short essay by Brendan Foley discusses the slaves involvement in the Maritime economy of America from 1638 to 1865.