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TRADE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE BRITISH WEST INDIES (1823-1846)
Corresponding Author(s) : N. V. Sang
Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews,
Vol. 8 No. 3 (2020): May
Abstract
Purpose of the study: This study investigated the history of trade relations between the United States and the British West Indies from 1823 to 1846.
Methodology: This article uses a combination of historical approach and interdisciplinary approach through statistics, analysis of statistical reports, and content of scientific publications on the topic.
Main Findings: The author of this article has analyzed the value of trade and the structure of exchanged products, compared the trade value between the US and the British West Indies with other regions as well as its effect on the US, British Indies in the context of the British-American relations in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Applications of this study: This study can be useful to understand the history of trade relations between the US and the British colonies in the West Indies during the first half of the nineteenth century. It can also be used for academic purposes for universities, researchers, lecturers of history and political sciences as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Novelty/Originality of this study: This paper is the first study on the history of trade relations between the US and the British West Indies between 1823 and 1846.
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- Mowat, R.B. (1925).The Diplomatic Relations of Great Britain and the United States. Longmans, Green & Co.
- Murray, H. (1855). The Encyclopedia of Geography: Comprising a Complete Description of the Earth. Longmans.
- Pastusiak, L. (2005). Prezydenci Stanów Zjednoczonych Ameryki. Wydawnictwo Iskry.
- Pitkin, T. (1817). A Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States of America: Its Connection with Agriculture and Manufactures: And an Account of the Public Debt, Revenues, and Expenditures of the United States. With a Brief Review of the Trade, Agriculture, and Manufactures of the Colonies, Previous to Their Independence. Accompanied by Tables, Illustrative of the Principles and Objects of the Work. James Eastburn & Company.
- Pitkin, T. (1835). A Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States of America: Including Also an Account of Banks, Manufactures, and Internal Trade and Improvements. Durrie & Peck.
- Rakestraw, D. A., & Jones, H. (1997). Prologue to Manifest Destiny: Anglo-American Relations in the 1840s. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
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- Sang, N. V. (2018b). The Caroline Affair and the Diplomatic Crisis between Great Britain and the United States, 1837–1841. Prawo i Polityka, 8, 73-83.
- Sang, N. V. (2019a). Relations between the United States of America and Great Britain from the Monroe doctrine to the Mexican-American war, 1823-1846 [The Doctoral Dissertation in History]. The University of Lodz.
- Sang, N. V. (2019b). The Reconstruction of the British-American Relations: From the American Revolutionary War to the War of 1812. Journal of Science, The University of Danang, University of Science and Education, 36(05), 66–72.
- Sang, N. V., Piotr, R., Phuong, N. D., & Trang, L. (2019). The struggle of the Right on the sea in the British-American relations: The case of the Creole Slaves Revolt (1841). Annals of the University of Craiova. History, 36(2), 23–36.
- Sang, N. V., & Tien, N. T. K. (2018). The Monroe Doctrine (1823): Origins, Principles, and Effects. Journal of Science, The University of Danang, University of Science and Education, 31(05), 39–45.
- Sang, N.V. (2020). Vấn Ä‘á» cưỡng bách tòng quân Trong Quan hệ Anh–MÄ© từ Chiến Tranh già nh Ä‘á»™c láºp đến hiệp Æ°á»›c Webster–Ashburton (1783-1842) [The Impressment of American sailors in the British-American relations from the American Revolutionary War to the Webster Ashburton Treaty (1783-1842)].Journal of Science, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, 17(04), 679-691.
- Smith, M. G. (1965). The plural society in the British West Indies. University of California Press.
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- United States Congress. (1859). American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States. Gales and Seaton.
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- Whiting, C. (1846). Commercial Tariffs and Regulations of the Several States of Europe and America. Nabu Press.
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Daszyńska, J. A. (2018a). Kryzysy i Kompromisy w Stanach Zjednoczonych Ameryki czasów Ojców Założyczieli. The University of Lodz.
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Mowat, R.B. (1925).The Diplomatic Relations of Great Britain and the United States. Longmans, Green & Co.
Murray, H. (1855). The Encyclopedia of Geography: Comprising a Complete Description of the Earth. Longmans.
Pastusiak, L. (2005). Prezydenci Stanów Zjednoczonych Ameryki. Wydawnictwo Iskry.
Pitkin, T. (1817). A Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States of America: Its Connection with Agriculture and Manufactures: And an Account of the Public Debt, Revenues, and Expenditures of the United States. With a Brief Review of the Trade, Agriculture, and Manufactures of the Colonies, Previous to Their Independence. Accompanied by Tables, Illustrative of the Principles and Objects of the Work. James Eastburn & Company.
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Rupprecht, A. (2013). All We Have Done, We Have Done for Freedom’’: The Creole Slave-Ship Revolt (1841) and the Revolutionary Atlantic. International Review of Social History, 58(21), 253–277. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859013000254 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859013000254
Sang, N. V. (2017). The Oregon Question in the British—American relations, 1818-1846. Koło Historii, 21, 43–58.
Sang, N. V. (2018a). The British-American Diplomacy in Searching for the Northeast Boundary in Maine and New Brunswick, 1820-1846. Annals of the University of Craiova. History, 2(34), 35–48.
Sang, N. V. (2018b). The Caroline Affair and the Diplomatic Crisis between Great Britain and the United States, 1837–1841. Prawo i Polityka, 8, 73-83.
Sang, N. V. (2019a). Relations between the United States of America and Great Britain from the Monroe doctrine to the Mexican-American war, 1823-1846 [The Doctoral Dissertation in History]. The University of Lodz.
Sang, N. V. (2019b). The Reconstruction of the British-American Relations: From the American Revolutionary War to the War of 1812. Journal of Science, The University of Danang, University of Science and Education, 36(05), 66–72.
Sang, N. V., Piotr, R., Phuong, N. D., & Trang, L. (2019). The struggle of the Right on the sea in the British-American relations: The case of the Creole Slaves Revolt (1841). Annals of the University of Craiova. History, 36(2), 23–36.
Sang, N. V., & Tien, N. T. K. (2018). The Monroe Doctrine (1823): Origins, Principles, and Effects. Journal of Science, The University of Danang, University of Science and Education, 31(05), 39–45.
Sang, N.V. (2020). Vấn Ä‘á» cưỡng bách tòng quân Trong Quan hệ Anh–MÄ© từ Chiến Tranh già nh Ä‘á»™c láºp đến hiệp Æ°á»›c Webster–Ashburton (1783-1842) [The Impressment of American sailors in the British-American relations from the American Revolutionary War to the Webster Ashburton Treaty (1783-1842)].Journal of Science, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, 17(04), 679-691.
Smith, M. G. (1965). The plural society in the British West Indies. University of California Press.
Trollope, A. (1999). The West Indies and the Spanish Main. Carroll & Graf.
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United States Department of Commerce. (1864). Statistics of the Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the United States. Government Printing Office.
The United States. Department of State. (1856). Report on the Commercial Relations of the United States with all Foreign Countries. Government Printing Office
United States Department of State. (1877). Report Upon the Commercial Relations of the United States With Foreign Countries for the Year 1876. Government Printing Office.
Ward, J. R. (1978). The Profitability of Sugar Planting in the British West Indies, 1650-1834. The Economic History Review, 31(2), 197–213. https://doi.org/10.2307/2594924 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.1978.tb01141.x
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Whiting, C. (1846). Commercial Tariffs and Regulations of the Several States of Europe and America. Nabu Press.
Zahedieh, N. (1986). Trade, Plunder, and Economic Development in Early English Jamaica, 1655-89. The Economic History Review, 39(2), 205–222. https://doi.org/10.2307/2596150 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.1986.tb00403.x