Emma Hart, Ph.D.
Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania | Richard S Dunn Director, McNeil Center
Emma Hart is the Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center, and a Professor in the University of Pennsylvania's history department. She is the author of two books on early American history; Building Charleston: Town and Society in the 18thc British Atlantic World (2010) and Trading Spaces: the Colonial Marketplace and the Foundations of American Capitalism (2019).
June 8, 2024
Episode 8: The Trade
At the dawn of a new era after the Seven Years’ War, British officials envision commerce and colonies as the key to British independence and its rising glory, but trade in commodities and manufactured goods comes at an awful…