British Mercantilism and Its Impact on American Colonies

Learn about how British mercantilism fueled economic imbalance, slavery, and revolution in the American colonies, leading to the rise of free trade and the end of mercantilism.
Foreign Affairs

Economic Planning in the British Colonies

UNTIL the decade before the last world war, British policy in the colonies had aimed chiefly at the establishment of order, the extension of the rule of law, the control of abuses, the creation of ...
The New York Times

How British Colonies in the Far East Are Governed.

Written for THE NEW YORK TIMES By A Crown Colony Servant For Twenty Years. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version ...
PBS

Map: The British Colonies

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans were ...
The New York Times

British Colonial Trade.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
Yahoo

Pros and cons of British colonial reparations

The British monarchy is entering a new era with the coronation of King Charles III. The king has pledged to be a transformational head of state, helping to bring the institution into the 21st century.
The Atlantic

English Naval Power and English Colonies

WHAT are the considerations which properly enter into any just estimate of a people’s naval power ? In the first place, this certainly is a vital question: Are the people themselves in any true sense ...