Title: From Dependency to Independence
First published: 1998
Description: Marshaling an enormous array of research data, Margaret Ellen Newell demonstrates that colonial New England's economic development and its leadership role in these two American revolutions were interrelated.

After a disastrous depression in 1640, New Englanders aggressively sought out markets overseas and began to develop a nascent manufacturing economy - all with the aid of town and provincial governments, which fostered economic growth through a wide range of promotional programs, culminating in the emission of paper currency.

Newell analyzes the colonists' discourse and finds that by the mid-eighteenth century many New Englanders were committed to a vision of a diverse, developed economy that put them on a collision course with English interests and policies.
Subjects: Economic conditions, History, New england, history, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Places: New England
Time periods: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
LC classification: HC107.A11 N46 1998