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Securing the commonwealth : debt, speculation, and writing in the making of early America
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Securing the commonwealth : debt, speculation, and writing in the making of early America / Jennifer J. Baker.
ISBN
0801879728 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Physical Description
x, 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 25, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-207) and index.
Contents
Crisis and faith in the Puritan Society
Making much of nothing in the Chesapeake
Benjamin Franklin's projections
Performing redemption on the national stage
Arthur Mervyn and the reader's investments
The medium between calculation and feeling.
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