A country storekeeper in Pennsylvania
Subtitle: creating economic networks in early America
By: Diane E. Wenger.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780271034126
Subjects: Rex, Samuel, -- d. 1835; General stores -- Pennsylvania -- Schaefferstown -- History -- 18th century; Merchants -- Pennsylvania -- Schaefferstown -- History -- 18th century; Business networks -- Pennsylvania -- Schaefferstown -- History -- 18th century; Schaefferstown (Pa.) -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century; Schaefferstown (Pa.) -- Economic conditions -- 18th century; Schaefferstown (Pa.) -- History -- 18th century
Description: "Examines the role that country storekeeper Samuel Rex of Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania, played in the society and economy of the mid-Atlantic region from 1790 to 1807. Studies consumption patterns of one typical Pennsylvania-German community"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a country storekeeper and his network of relationships; title: Beyond "wild forest people": Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania; title: The Rex Store and its local customers; title: Feeding the furnaces: the iron community and the Rex Store; title: "Orders thankfully received, and carefully executed": Rex and the Philadelphia merchants; title: A life of "comparative ease"; title: Epilogue: Rex's network and its significance.