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A vigorous spirit of enterprise : merchants and economic development in Revolutionary Philadelphia / Thomas M. Doerflinger.
Lippincott Library HC108.P5 D64 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doerflinger, Thomas M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Businessmen--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century.
- Businessmen.
- Businesspeople.
- History.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Commerce--History--18th century.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Economic conditions.
- Businesspeople--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 413 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1986]
- Contents:
- The Character of the Merchant Community
- Social Structure and Recruitment
- Merchant Princes and Paupers
- Merchants, Artisans, and Gentlemen
- How to Become a Merchant
- Friends and Churchmen
- The Articulation of the Merchant Community
- Patterns of Commercial Specialization
- The Division between the Dry Goods and Provision Trades
- Suppliers and Distributors
- Mercantile Fortunes
- Enterprise and Adversity
- The Fabric of Adversity
- The Response to Adversity
- The Dynamics of Enterprise: An Overview
- The Revolution
- Reluctant Revolutionaries
- The Economic Outlook, 1760-1775
- The Logic of Moderation
- Religion and Politics
- Moderation Applied
- The Shock of War
- The Economics of Civil War
- The Four Phases of Commercial Disruption
- The Wartime Experience of the Merchants
- The Loyalists
- The Staff Officers
- The Fortune Builders
- The Immigrants
- The Federalist Reaction
- The Pennsylvania Revolution
- The Counterrevolution in Congress
- The Commercial Context of Constitutional Reform
- The Shaping of a Federalist Consensus
- Merchants and the Federalist Coup
- Merchants and Economic Diversification
- The Entrepreneurial Efflorescence
- Commercial Innovation
- The Bank of North America
- Securities Speculation
- Land Speculation
- Manufacturing
- American Economic Development and the Case of Philadelphia
- Philadelphia and Her Competitors, 1780-1840
- Planters and Merchants
- The Case of Virginia
- The Commercial World of Revolutionary Philadelphia.
- Notes:
- "Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 383-398.
- American Historical Association Herbert Feis Award, 1986.
- Bancroft Prize, 1987.
- ISBN:
- 0807816531
- OCLC:
- 11866678
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