American Financial History

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

Economic History Abstracts

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

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.

Internet Resources for Economic Historians

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

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.

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.

Leslie Brock Center

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

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.

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.

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.

Defense of Usury

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

Money and Trade...a Proposal

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

Money in North America

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

Money Substitutes

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

U.S. Treasury Secretaries

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

The China Trade

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

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.

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.

The English Utilitarians

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

Of Commerce by Hume

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

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.

Madrid of the Bourbons, Economy

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

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...".

The Slave Trade in Portsmouth

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

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.