America, the Atlantic, and Global Consumer Demand, 1500-1800
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12129355 |
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| Authors | Carole Shammas (0000-0003-2950-8564, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59-64 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OAH Magazine of History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0882-228X • E-ISSN: 1938-2340 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/maghis/19.1.59 |
| OpenAlex | W2327705205 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
The Atlantic migration of Europeans and Africans to America and the commercial activities associated with it created an economy that for the first time in history could be called global. For many years, historians have relied upon the word mercantilism to capture this international world. Over the last decade, as research has focused more intently on ties between early modern consumers, producers, and distributors in America, Europe, and Africa, the concept of an Atlantic world economic community has eclipsed the mercantilism paradigm. More recently, scholarly voices have cautioned against portraying the commerce of the Atlantic as a separate economic world unto itself and ignoring the true globalism of trade in the period. In discussing the evolving conceptualization of the early modern economy, it is important not only to recognize the commercial growth that occurred during the period, but also to take into account the demographic and environmental changes that
Atlantic World · Conceptualization · Early modern period · Economics · Economy · Globalism · Globalization · Mercantilism · Period (music · Political science · World history · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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