Research Summary
Research Summary
Research and Publication Interests
Description
Michelle Craig McDonald is currently writing a Harvard Business School case study on the impact of the International Coffee Act on small producers. She is interested in early American economic development, especially the role of foreign trade and re-exported commodities in the formation of diplomatic and trade policies and changes in North American consumer behavior.
Her recent publications include:
'The Chance of the Moment: Coffee and the New West Indies Commodities Trade,' William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser. 57:3 (July 2004): 441-472.
'Grounds for Debate?: The Place of the Caribbean Provisions Trade in Philadelphia's Prerevolutionary Economy,' Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 128:2 (April 2004): 149-177.
'The World in a Grain of Sand: Archival Research in Dominica,' Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life 5:1 (Oct. 2004).