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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Matson, Cathy D., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.

United States.

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

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

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

vii, 380 p. ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pa. : The Pennsylvania State University Press, c2006.

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:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

ISBN:

0271027118 (clothbound : alk. paper)

OCLC:

61651563