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Module 3: Economic Change in the Eighteenth Century

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To understand the connections between the economy and society.

James II (shown here in a painting ca. 1690)

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4.2 The Glorious Revolution and the English Empire
During the brief rule of King James II, many in England feared the imposition of a Catholic absolute monarchy by the man who modeled his rule on that of his French Catholic cousin, Louis XIV. Opposition to James II, spearheaded by the English Whig party, overthrew the king in the Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689. This paved the way for the Protestant reign of William of Orange and his wife Mary (James’s Protestant daughter).
4.3 An Empire of Slavery and the Consumer Revolution
Slavery formed a cornerstone of the British Empire in the eighteenth century. Every colony had enslaved people, from the southern rice plantations in Charles Town, South Carolina, to the northern wharves of Boston. Slavery was more than a labor system; it also influenced every aspect of colonial thought and culture.

Families and Farms: Mentalité in Pre-Industrial America
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Assigned Reading: pp. 3, 21-32
Henretta, James A. “Families and Farms: Mentalité in Pre-Industrial America.” The William and Mary Quarterly 35, no. 1 (1978): 3–32. https://doi.org/10.2307/1922569.

An Empire of Goods: The Anglicization of Colonial America, 1690-1776
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Assigned reading: pp. 467-8, 479-81, 485-489, 492-8
Breen, T. H. “An Empire of Goods: The Anglicization of Colonial America, 1690-1776.” Journal of British Studies 25, no. 4 (1986): 467–99. http://www.jstor.org/stable/175565.

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U.S. History
Authors: P. Scott Corbett, Volker Janssen, John M. Lund, Todd Pfannestiel, Sylvie Waskiewicz, Paul Vickery
Access for free at https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/1-introduction
Sections located at: 4.2 https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/4-2-the-glorious-revolution-and-the-english-empire; 4.3 https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/4-3-an-empire-of-slavery-and-the-consumer-revolution
License: Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0

Families and Farms: Mentalité in Pre-Industrial America
Henretta, James A. “Families and Farms: Mentalité in Pre-Industrial America.” The William and Mary Quarterly 35, no. 1 (1978): 3–32. https://doi.org/10.2307/1922569.

An Empire of Goods: The Anglicization of Colonial America, 1690-1776
Breen, T. H. “An Empire of Goods: The Anglicization of Colonial America, 1690-1776.” Journal of British Studies 25, no. 4 (1986): 467–99. http://www.jstor.org/stable/175565.

HIS 210 - U.S. History through the Civil War - Textbook

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Module 3: Economic Change in the Eighteenth Century

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