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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Cathy D Matson |
| ISBN: | 0271027118 9780271027111 |
| OCLC Number: | 61651563 |
| Notes: | "Published in cooperation with The Library Company of Philadelphia." |
| Description: | vii, 380 p. ; 25 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Cathy Matson. |
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