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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Matson, Cathy D., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonies.

Economic conditions.

United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.

United States.

United States--Economic conditions--1865-1918.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--Economic conditions.

Great Britain.

America.

Physical Description:

viii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2006]

Summary:

The Economy of Early America brings to light a range of new scholarship fostered by the Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES). Sponsored by the Library Company of Philadelphia and directed by Cathy Matson of the University of Delaware, PEAES is the only center in the country that is dedicated to promoting scholarly research and publication about the early American economy that stems from work in broadly conceived fields such as commercial and manufacturing history, business, technology, labor, political economy, households, and the economy of the family, down to the 1850s. PEAES activities include a fellowship program, public seminars and education programs, a monograph series, special forums in key scholarly journals, awards for best journal articles, a survey of resources on the economy of the Philadelphia region, and acquisition of printed materials to augment the rich collections of the Library Company.

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.

Notes:

"Published in cooperation with The Library Company of Philadelphia."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0271027118

OCLC:

61651563