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The Jacksons and the Lees : Two Generations of Massachusetts Merchants, 1765-1844. Volume I.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Porter, Kenneth Wiggins, author.
- Series:
- Harvard studies in business history ; III.
- Harvard Studies in Business History ; 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jackson family.
- Lee family.
- Commerce.
- Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr.
- Massachusetts--Commerce--History.
- Massachusetts.
- Local Subjects:
- Jackson family.
- Lee family.
- Massachusetts--Commerce--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (858 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
- Edition:
- Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
- AUTHOR'S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- GENERAL INTRODUCTION
- The Sedentary Merchant in Massachusetts 1765-1844
- I. ANCESTRY AND TRAINING
- II. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MASSACHUSETTS COMMERCE BEFORE THE REVOLUTION
- III. PRIVATEERING
- IV. THE PERIOD OF TRANSITION
- V. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TRADE WITH INDIA TO 1816
- VI. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EAST INDIA TRADE, 1816-1852
- VII. BUSINESS ASPECTS OF THE COLONIAL AND EARLY POST-REVOLUTIONARY COMMERCE OF MASSACHUSETTS
- VIII. BUSINESS ASPECTS OF THE CALCUTTA TRADE
- IX. DIVERSIFICATION AND SPECIALIZATION
- X. KINSHIP AND BUSINESS
- XI. BUSINESS ETHICS
- XII. THE BUSINESS MAN AND GOVERNMENT
- XIII. MISCELLANEOUS ACTIVITIES OF THE BUSINESS MAN
- NOTES
- DOCUMENTS
- PART I. First Generation: Jonathan Jackson, 1765-87
- DIVISION I. JONATHAN JACKSON AND JACKSON & BROMFIELD NEWBURYPORT IMPORTERS OF BRITISH GOODS 1765-73
- DIVISION II. JACKSON, TRACY & TRACY, NEWBURYPORT MERCHANTS IN THE TRADE WITH SPAIN AND THE WEST INDIES AND IN REVOLUTIONARY PRIVATEERING 1774-80
- DIVISION III. JACKSON & HIGGINSON A BOSTON GENERAL MERCHANDISING CONCERN 1784-87
- PART II. First Generation: Joseph Lee, 1774-1827
- DIVISION IV. JOSEPH LEE & CO., BEVERLY MERCHANTS IN THE TRADE WITH SPAIN AND THE WEST INDIES AND IN REVOLUTIONARY PRIVATEERING 1774-77
- DIVISION V. LEE & CABOT, BEVERLY MERCHANTS IN THE POST-REVOLUTIONARY TRADE WITH SPAIN AND THE WEST INDIES 1786-91
- DIVISION VI. A GLANCE AT JOSEPH LEE, INVESTOR 1803-27
- PART III. Second Generation: Joseph Lee, Jr., and Henry Lee, 1793-1805
- DIVISION VII. JOSEPH LEE, JR., GENERAL BOSTON MERCHANT 1793-1805
- DIVISION VIII. HENRY LEE, COMMERCIAL RESIDENT IN FRANCE 1804-05
- PART IV. Second Generation: Patrick Tracy Jackson 1802-24
- DIVISION IX. PATRICK TRACY JACKSON, CALCUTTA SUPERCARGO 1802-06
- DIVISION X. PATRICK TRACY JACKSON, BOSTON EAST INDIA MERCHANT 1807-15
- DIVISION XI. A GLIMPSE OF PATRICK TRACY JACKSON, MANUFACTURER 1824
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-28939-0
- OCLC:
- 979629345
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