We invite you to read the conference papers in advance.

The papers for this conference will highlight aspects of this rich discussion, covering diverse regions and commodities of the Atlantic World and the influences of four empires in the western hemisphere. Participants will include Paul Cheney, Allan Potofsky, Herb Sloan, Alec Dun, Michelle Craig, John Garrigus, Sherry Johnson, Evelyn Powell Jennings, Linda Salvucci, Brooke Hunter, Richard Chew, and Sheryllynne Haggerty.

All papers are in PDF format.

Paul Cheney, University of Chicago, "Franco-American Trade During the American War of Independence : A False Dawn for Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism?" (PDF File)

Richard Chew, "Unforeseen Troubles: Baltimore's Atlantic Trade and the Commercial Frustrations of the Confederation Period" (PDF File)

• Appendix A Part I (PDF File)
• Appendix A Part II (PDF File)
  

Michelle L. Craig, Department of History, University of Michigan and PEAES Pre-Dissertation Fellow (2003), "CONTRABAND COFFEE: Smuggling and Other Tricks of Trade" (PDF File)

Alec Dun, Princeton University, "What avenues of commerce, will you, Americans, not explore!" Philadelphia's Commercial Vantage on St. Domingue, 1789-1793" (PDF File)

Brooke Hunter (Rider University) and Paul G. E. Clemens (Rutgers University), "The Price of War: The Mid-Atlantic Grain Trade from the Seven Years' to the Napoleonic Wars" (PDF File)

Evelyn Powell Jennings, Saint Lawrence University, "State Slavery in the Atlantic Economy:
The Case of Cuba in the late Eighteenth Century" (PDF File)

Sherry Johnson, Florida International University, "Where Has All the Flour Gone? El Niño, Environmental Crisis, and Cuban Trade Restrictions, 1768-1778" (PDF File)

Allan Potofsky, Université Paris-VIII, "The Political Economy of "Deficit Consciousness" in the French Revolution: The Ideological Uses of Atlantic Commerce, From 1787 to Thermidor" (PDF File)

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