论英属新英格兰经济商业化成因

An Analysis of Factors Leading to Economic Commercialization in British New England

英属新英格兰创建后,清教徒移民不仅带来了金融资本和技术,而且带来了新的生活方式和清教精神。他们在改造北美原始生态环境的过程中,因地制宜,积极发展交通运输和内部贸易网络,开拓对外贸易,不断丰富出口产品种类和结构。随着殖民地与大西洋贸易体系的融合程度不断提升,新英格兰经济的商业化,不仅使经济结构发生了重大变革,而且作为大西洋世界的转运贸易中心,带动了北美经济的发展。

When British New England was created, the puritan immigrants brought not only the financial capital and technology, but also a new way of life and the spirit of puritan. In the process of transforming the primitive ecological environment of North America, they actively developed transportation and internal trade network, expanded the foreign trade, constantly enriched species and structure of export products according to local conditions. As colonial economy integrated signifi cantly into the Atlantic trade system more and more, New England economy had completed the commercializing process. Thus, not only its economic structure had a major change, but also it became a transiting trade center in Atlantic World, boosting the economic growth of North America.