The economy of early America
Subtitle: historical perspectives and new directions
By: edited by Cathy Matson.
Contributors: Matson, Cathy D., 1951-
Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Subjects: United States -- Economic conditions -- To 1865; United States -- Economic conditions -- 1865-1918; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Economic conditions
Notes: Includes index.
"Published in cooperation with The Library Company of Philadelphia."
Table of contents: title: A house of many mansions: some thoughts on the field of economic history / Cathy Matson; title: Rethinking the economy of British America / David Hancock; title: Colonial America's Mestizo agriculture / Russell R. Menard; title: Peopling, producing, and consuming in early British America / Lorena S. Walsh; title: Indentured servitude in perspective: European migration into North America and the composition of the early American labor force, 1600/1775 / Christopher Tomlins; title: Capitalism, slavery, and Benjamin Franklin's American Revolution / David Waldstreicher; title: Moneyless in Pennsylvania: privatization and the depression of the 1780s / Terry Bouton; title: Creative destruction: the forgotten legacy of the hessian fly / Brooke Hunter; title: The panic of 1819 and the political economy of sectionalism / Daniel S. Dupre; title: Toward a social history of the corporation: shareholding in Pennsylvania, 1800/1840 / John Majewski; title: Small-producer capitalism in early national Philadelphia / Donna J. Rilling; title: The unfree origins of America capitalism / Seth Rockman.