The Overseas Trade of British America

The Overseas Trade of British America: A Narrative History presents a three hundred–year account of early American commerce and the formation of the American economy. Written by Thomas M. Truxes, the book chronicles how transatlantic commercial networks developed across three centuries.

The narrative traces Atlantic trade from its beginnings in sixteenth-century Tudor England through the survival, growth, and eventual prosperity of British America. It examines how overseas commerce connected separate geographical regions, each with distinct identities and economic structures, into a unified economic fabric.

Truxes also demonstrates that colonial American prosperity was possible only through the labor of enslaved Africans. The 464-page work includes maps, figures, illustrations, notes, and an index.