About the lecture

In the first module, we explore how the population of the British colonies changed over time. Crucially, the British colonies were diverse places that included not only English but also Scotch-Irish, German, Swedish and Dutch settlers. The presence of these different European religious and ethnic groups contributed to a significant degree of pluralism and intellectual exchange in this period.

About the lecturer

Jonathan Barth is assistant professor of history at Arizona State University. He specialises in the history of money and banking in the early modern period, with corollary interests in early modern politics, empire, culture, and ideas. His first book, The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America, explores the intersection of money and imperial politics in the first hundred years of English Atlantic colonisation.