Reviewed by Michael J Boyle Key Takeaways Mercantilism increased a country's wealth by boosting exports.Colonies experienced high inflation and heavy taxation under mercantilism.Mercantilism led to ...

A new study in the Review of Economic Studies suggests that areas where Dutch colonizers built sugar factories in the 19th century are more developed today. Colonial powers have typically organized ...

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 ...

Rather than a “colonial America,” we should speak of an Indigenous America that was only slowly and unevenly becoming ...

At the beginning of the 1700s, newspapers were a fairly new concept in the American colonies. But by the end of the century, they had truly become the mass media of the day, with growing influence in ...