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SUMMARY:Commodities\, Commerce and Risk: Transforming Access to American S
 ettlement after Napoleon - James Boyd (Cambridge)
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DTEND:20170515T130000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Immediately after the Napoleonic Wars\, the type of migrant le
 aving Europe for the United States\, and the nature of their migration\, c
 hanged dramatically.  “Commodities\, Commerce and Risk” explores pivot
 al changes in trade and passenger shipping between continental Europe and 
 the United States from the 1790s to 1817\, examining how those changes end
 ed the institution of indenture\, and in turn defined who could access the
  young American Republic in  the pre-steam age.  In a unique period when n
 either indenture nor extensive remittances could provide cheap access for 
 continental Europeans\, capital became more important to the migration dec
 ision – and to potential settlement choices - than in any prior period o
 f mass migration\, or any subsequent period after the crises of 1846. Usin
 g sources from German Europe to examine the changes to trade\, commerce an
 d law which helped to define post-Napoleonic migration\, this paper seeks 
 not only to explain changes in migration models\, but to question the cons
 equences of those changes for the development of the young United States.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 5\, Faculty of History
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