The economy of early America : historical perspectives & new directions / edited by Cathy Matson.

Other author Matson, Cathy D., 1951-
Format Book
Publication InfoUniversity Park, Pa. : The Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2006.
Descriptionvii, 380 pages ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
United States--Economic conditions. --To 1865.
United States--Economic conditions. --1865-1918.
Great Britain--Colonies. --America. --Economic conditions.

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.
General note"Published in cooperation with The Library Company of Philadelphia."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005026097
ISBN0271027118 (clothbound : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks HC104 .E25 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold