British Imperialism in a Mercantilist Age, 1492–1849: Conceptual Issues and Empirical Problems
Writing on the eve of one of the major transformations in the British Empire, Adam Smith more or less repeated the remark made by the Abbé Raynal several years earlier that «the discovery of America, and that of passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most impor...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0212610900007102 2024-03-03T08:46:44+00:00 British Imperialism in a Mercantilist Age, 1492–1849: Conceptual Issues and Empirical Problems Engerman, Stanley L. 1998 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0212610900007102 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0212610900007102 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History volume 16, issue 1, page 195-231 ISSN 0212-6109 2041-3335 Economics and Econometrics History journal-article 1998 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0212610900007102 2024-02-08T08:37:09Z Writing on the eve of one of the major transformations in the British Empire, Adam Smith more or less repeated the remark made by the Abbé Raynal several years earlier that «the discovery of America, and that of passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind» l . Both of these great events of the 1490's, Columbus's discovery of the Americas and the sailing to India, a few years later, by Vasco de Gama, had no immediate impact on the British economy, but the opening up of this wider world for colonization and trading would soon have profound impacts on Britain and the other nations of Western Europe. In the same decade Britain, however, did make its first claim to New World territory, when John Cabot landed on Newfoundland in 1497, but it was to be about a century before title was clear and setdement begun. Not the first to establish an empire, the British rose to world-wide dominance over the course of the next three centuries. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland Cambridge University Press Cabot ENVELOPE(-54.600,-54.600,-63.383,-63.383) Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History 16 1 195 231 |
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Writing on the eve of one of the major transformations in the British Empire, Adam Smith more or less repeated the remark made by the Abbé Raynal several years earlier that «the discovery of America, and that of passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind» l . Both of these great events of the 1490's, Columbus's discovery of the Americas and the sailing to India, a few years later, by Vasco de Gama, had no immediate impact on the British economy, but the opening up of this wider world for colonization and trading would soon have profound impacts on Britain and the other nations of Western Europe. In the same decade Britain, however, did make its first claim to New World territory, when John Cabot landed on Newfoundland in 1497, but it was to be about a century before title was clear and setdement begun. Not the first to establish an empire, the British rose to world-wide dominance over the course of the next three centuries. |
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