The economy of early America : historical perspectives & new directions

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Contributors: Matson, Cathy D., 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pa. : The Pennsylvania State University Press, c2006.
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Table of 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.