{"product_id":"trade-politics-and-revolution-huw-david-9781611178944","title":"Trade, Politics, and Revolution: South Carolina and Britain's Atlantic Commerce, 1730-1790","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA study of early transatlantic trade in South Carolina that exposes the divisive complexity that led to war\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLondon's \"Carolina traders,\" a little-known group of transatlantic merchants, played a pivotal but historically neglected role in the rise of tensions in the South Carolina lowcountry. In \u003ci\u003eTrade, Politics, and Revolution, \u003c\/i\u003e Huw David delves into the lives of these men and explores their influence on commerce and politics in the years before and after the American Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning in the 1730s, a few select merchants in Charleston fueled South Carolina's economic rise, used their political connections to prosper in British-Carolinian trade, and then relocated to London, becoming absentee owners of property, plantations, and slaves. Using correspondence, business and slave trade records, newspapers, and a wealth of other sources, David reconstructs the lives of these Carolina traders and demonstrates their shifting but instrumental influence over the course of the eighteenth century. Until the 1760s these transatlantic traders served as a stabilizing force, using their wealth and political connections to lobby for colonial interests. As the British Empire flexed its power and incited rebellion with laws such as the so-called Intolerable Acts, South Carolinians became suspicious of the traders, believing them to be instruments of imperial oppression.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrade, Politics, and Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fresh understanding of trade in South Carolina's early history and the shifting climate that led to the American Revolution, as well as reaching beyond the war to explore the reconstruction of trade routes between the newly founded United States and Great Britain. By focusing on one segment of transatlantic trade, David provides a new interpretive approach to imperialism and exposes the complex, deeply personal rift that divided the Carolina traders from their homeland and broke the colonies from the mother country\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Huw David\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1611178940\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781611178944\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2019","brand":"Huw David","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48449793851647,"sku":"9781611178944","price":61.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e5918191-6c50-4d99-bb90-68d0a68b6038.jpg?v=1777264937","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/trade-politics-and-revolution-huw-david-9781611178944","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}