British Quote by Ezra Stiles

“British merchants became notably more aggressive and successful in exploring extra-European markets, and Crisp’s progress, from a concentration on Mediterranean commerce to involvement in…

— Linda Colley

The immediate impact of British imperial free-trading was often the collapse of local indigenous industries which were in no position to compete, and a…

— Linda Colley

Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and…

— Henry Rollins

The arrival of the Barbary pirates radically changed English attitudes. Instead of patriotic pirates plundering foreign cargoes and bringing them homes to enrich their…

— Nicholas Rodger

“It was not that “slave trade profits” flowed through some fiendish channels into the dark satanic mills. But the burgeoning Atlantic trade of the…

— Gavin Wright

“The British were highly skilled counterfeiters, and one of their favorite ways to attack the Americans was by depreciating colonial currency.”

— Brian Kilmeade

The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium trade [...]…

— John Coleman

“for centuries much of the world's international trade was carried in ships that sailed past West Africa on their way between Europe and Asia…

— Thomas Sowell

What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory…

— Yahya Jammeh

Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same countries ...(that…

— Thomas Paine

Instead of exporting what they perceived to be rational, modern, humane government to their colonies, the British often found themselves propping up deeply unattractive…

— Linda Colley

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost,…

— Henry Charles Carey