From dependency to independence : economic revolution in colonial New England / Margaret Ellen Newell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newell, Margaret Ellen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New England--Economic conditions.

New England.

New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a sweeping synthesis of a crucial period of American history, From Dependency to Independence starts with the 'problem' of New England's economic development. As a struggling outpost of a powerful commercial empire, colonial New England grappled with problems familiar to modern developing societies: a lack of capital and managerial skills, a nonexistent infrastructure, and a domestic economy that failed to meet the inhabitants' needs or to generate exports. Yet, less than a century and a half later, New England staged the war for political independence and the industrial revolution. How and why did this transformation occur? Marshaling an enormous array of research data, Margaret Ellen Newell demonstrates that colonial New England's economic development and its leadership role in these two American revolutions were interrelated.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations and Maps

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Problem of Economic Development in Colonial New England

Part I. Political Economy, Culture, and Development in the Seventeenth Century

Chapter 1. "A Second England": English Background and Plans for Settlement

Chapter 2. Regulation in the Wilderness

Chapter 3. The Promotional State

Chapter 4. Emulation of Empire

Chapter 5. Producers and Consumers

Part II. Economy and Ideology in Provincial New England

Chapter 6. The Idea of Money in Seventeenth-Century England and America

Chapter 7. Paper Money and Public Policy, 1690-1714

Chapter 8. "A Poor Dependent State": The Argument for Retrenchment

Chapter 9. The Virtues of the Internal Economy

Chapter 10. The Political Culture of Paper Money

Chapter 11. From the Land Bank to the Currency Act

Part III. The Political Economy of Revolution

Chapter 12. Development at Mid-Century

Chapter 13. The Imperial Crisis

Chapter 14. The Consequences of Independence

Epilogue: The Meaning of Development in New England

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 3, 2015).

ISBN:

9781501700262

150170026X

9781501700279

1501700278

OCLC:

966913578