References

The following is a list of materials read or reviewed during the creation of this scenario. There was a good bit of focus on understanding the economics of Colonial trade, British tax policy and the motivations for the Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution, in addition to researching the East India Company.

Books

• Barck, Oscar Theodore Jr. & Lefler, Hugh Talmage (1968 - 2nd Edition). Colonial America. New York: MacMillian Company.
• Bunker, Nick (2014). An Empire on the Edge. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Random House.
• Chaudhuri, K. N. (2006). The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company: 1660-1760. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
• Irwin, D. A. (2017). Clashing Over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy. United Kingdom: University of Chicago Press.
• Keay, John (1991). The Honourable Company: a History of the English East India Company. London: HarperCollins.
• Labaree, Benjamin Woods (1979). The Boston Tea Party. United States: Northeastern University Press.
• Patton, R. H. (2009). Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution. United States: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
• Randall, W. S. (2022). The Founders’ Fortunes: How Money Shaped the Birth of America. United States: Penguin Publishing Group.

Additional Reading

Indirect sources that tangentially related or are works that have yet been researched by the development team.

• Andreas, Peter (2013). Smuggler Nation: How illicit trade made America. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.
• Beckert, Sven (2014). Empire of Cotton. United States: Alfred A. Knopf, Random House.
• Butman, John and Targett, Simon (2018). New World, Inc.: The Making of America by England’s Merchant Adventurers. New York: Little, Brown and Company.
• Finn, Margot (2018). The East India Company at home, 1757-1857. London: UCL Press.
• O’Shaughnessy, A. J. (2013). The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire. United States: Yale University Press.
• Shachtman, Tom (2020). The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America’s Revolution.
• Sheridan, Richard B. (1994). Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies, 1623-1775. Canoe Press, University of the West Indies. Canoe Press.
• Rich, E.E. and Churchill, Winston (1958). The History of the Hudson’s Bay Company 1670-1870 - Volume I: 1670-1763. Glasgow: University Press, Hudson’s Bay Company.

Articles and Papers

Specific academic papers, articles or other tangentally related books.

• Ansoff, Peter (2011). Sir Charles Fawcett Redux: The Historical Connection between the East India Company Flag and the American Continental Colors. Proceedings of the 24th International Congress of Vexillology - 2011. https://www.fiav.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/icv24-03ansoff.pdf.
• Bezanson, Anne & Gray, Robert & Hussey, Miriam (1935). Prices in Colonial Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Chaffin, R. J. (1970). The Townshend Acts of 1767. The William and Mary Quarterly, 27(1), 90-121. https://doi.org/10.2307/1923840
• Childs, Matt D. (2004). Childs on Carrington, ‘The Sugar Industry and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1775-1810’.
• Gould, Eliga (2023). How the Boston Tea Party’s ‘Destruction of the Tea’ Changed American History. https://www.bunkhistory.org/resources/how-the-boston-tea-partys-destruction-of-the-tea-changed-american-history
• Morris, Margaret Shove (1914). Colonial Trade of Maryland, 1689-1715. Dissertation for Byrn Mawr College. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001122951
• Rossiter, W.S. (1909). Population in the Colonial and Continental Periods. Bureau of the Census. https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/1909/decennial/century-populaton-growth-part02.pdf.
• Sutherland, L. S. (1947). The East India Company in Eighteenth-Century Politics. The Economic History Review, 17(1), 15-26. https://doi.org/10.2307/2590689

Podcasts

There are several fantastic podcasts about these topics. I skipped most of the episodes focusing on the Revolutionary War itself, preferring instead the political and economic rationale.

• Covart, Liz (Host). (2014-Present). Ben Franklin’s World [Audio Podcast]. https://benfranklinsworld.com/
• Crytzer, Brady (Host). (2019-present). Dispatches: Podcast of the Journal of the American Revolution [Audio Podcast]. https://jardispatches.podbean.com/
• Dalrymple, William and Anand, Anita (Hosts). (2022-present). Empire [Audio podcast]. https://www.goalhangerpodcasts.com/empire/
• Michael, Troy (Host). (2017-present). American Revolution Podcast [Audio podcast]. https://blog.amrevpodcast.com/
• Sanghera, Sathnam (Host). (2023). Empire of Tea [Radio Program]. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001t30b

Maps

These historical maps should provide inspiration in how to represent America on the board.

• A new and correct map of the trading part of the West Indies… Likewise the British Empire in America (Overton, Henry - 1741).
• North America in 1750.
  • European colonies in North America, c. 1750
• A new map of North America wherein the British Dominions (1763?). From the Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon.
• Cantonment of His Majesty’s forces in N. America (March 1766).
• A map of the British Empire of North America (Dunn, Samuel - 1774).
• The British colonies in North America (Faden, William - 1777).