The Red Queen in New England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3537484 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gloria L Main (corresponding author), Jackson Turner Main |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 121 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2674597 |
| OpenAlex | W2024109986 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
OME historical images endure in spite of evidence to the contrary, perhaps because they coincide with scholars' deepest convictions about how things must have been. Despite persistent notions otherwise, colonial New England's economy was flourishing in the eighteenth century. It was not British America's poorest region, and it was not in dire economic straits on the eve of the Revolution.' Landless multitudes were indeed crowding into port cities looking for work in the closing decade of the colonial period, and Boston was certainly losing ground to shipping rivals elsewhere. But New England-built ships were furnishing a third of the empire's fleet, multitudes of them were engaged in short-haul coastal trade, and the region's fishermen were not only prospering but expanding their activities into long-distance whaling.2 Population and markets on Barbados and the
Art · Biology · Queen (butterfly · Zoology · American Environmental and Regional History · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2014 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |