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Edward "Kid" Ory (1886-1973) was a trombonist, composer, recording artist, and early New Orleans jazz band leader. Creole Trombone tells his story from birth on a rural sugar cane plantation in a French-speaking, ethnically mixed family, to his emergence in New Orleans as the city's hottest band leader. The Ory band featured such future jazz stars as Louis Armstrong and King Oliver, and was widely considered New Orleans's top "hot" band. Ory's...

The 14 essays, revised for this volume, share as their common theme the development of the Atlantic economy, especially British America and the Caribbean. They establish the strengths and weaknesses of the sources available and then exhibit by example how such materials can analyze key issues.

In this first comprehensive assessment of where research on prerevolutionary economy stands, what it seeks to achieve, and how it might best proceed, the authors discuss those areas in which traditional work remains to be done and address new possibilities for a "new economic history”.

Explains how money and exchange functioned as elements of the American economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This book also provides sufficient technical and statistical information to allow the reader to convert a sum recorded in one currency into its equivalent in another.

Edward "Kid" Ory (1886-1973) was a trombonist, composer, recording artist, and early New Orleans jazz band leader. Creole Trombone tells his story from birth on a rural sugar cane plantation in a French-speaking, ethnically mixed family, to his emergence in New Orleans as the city's hottest band leader.

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Written by one of the leading authorities on trade and finance in the early modern Atlantic world, these fourteen essays, revised and integrated for this volume, share as their common theme the development of the Atlantic economy.

The development of major Atlantic trades and impact on eighteenth-century European and New World societies.