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The economy of early America : historical perspectives & new directions
Title
The economy of early America : historical perspectives & new directions / edited by Cathy Matson.
ISBN
0271027118 (clothbound : alk. paper)
Published
University Park, Pa. : The Pennsylvania State University Press, c2006.
Physical Description
vii, 380 pages ; 25 cm.
Notes
"Published in cooperation with The Library Company of Philadelphia."
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 12, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A house of many mansions: some thoughts on the field of economic history / Cathy Matson
Rethinking the economy of British America / David Hancock
Colonial America's Mestizo agriculture / Russell R. Menard
Peopling, producing, and consuming in early British America / Lorena S. Walsh
Indentured servitude in perspective: European migration into North America and the composition of the early American labor force, 1600/1775 / Christopher Tomlins
Capitalism, slavery, and Benjamin Franklin's American Revolution / David Waldstreicher
Moneyless in Pennsylvania: privatization and the depression of the 1780s / Terry Bouton
Creative destruction: the forgotten legacy of the hessian fly / Brooke Hunter
The panic of 1819 and the political economy of sectionalism / Daniel S. Dupre
Toward a social history of the corporation: shareholding in Pennsylvania, 1800/1840 / John Majewski
Small-producer capitalism in early national Philadelphia / Donna J. Rilling
The unfree origins of America capitalism / Seth Rockman.
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