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Economy of Early America:

Historical Perspectives and New Directions

ISBN-13: 9780271027654
Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edited by Cathy Matson
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Local release date: 22/09/2010
Format: Paperback 376 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Economics [KC]

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In recent years, scholars in a number of disciplines have focused their attention on understanding the early American economy. The result has been an outpouring of scholarship, some of it dramatically revising older methodologies and findings, and some of it charting entirely new territory—new subjects, new places, and new arenas of study that might not have been considered “economic” in the past.

The Economy of Early America enters this resurgent discussion of the early American economy by showcasing the work of leading scholars who represent a spectrum of historiographical and methodological viewpoints. Contributors include David Hancock, Russell Menard, Lorena Walsh, Christopher Tomlins, David Waldstreicher, Terry Bouton, Brooke Hunter, Daniel Dupre, John Majewski, Donna Rilling, and Seth Rockman, as well as Cathy Matson.

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Preface

1. A House of Many Mansions: Some Thoughts on the Field of Economic History

Cathy Matson

2. Rethinking The Economy of British America

David Hancock

3. Colonial America’s Mestizo Agriculture

Russell R. Menard

4. Peopling, Producing, and Consuming in EarlyBritish America

Lorena S. Walsh

5. Indentured Servitude in Perspective: European Migration into North America and the Composition of the Early American Labor Force, 1600–1775

Christopher Tomlins

6. Capitalism, Slavery, and Benjamin Franklin’s American Revolution

David Waldstreicher

7. Moneyless in Pennsylvania: Privatization and the Depression of the 1780s

Terry Bouton

8. Creative Destruction: The Forgotten Legacy of the Hessian Fly

Brooke Hunter

9. The Panic of 1819 and the Political Economy of Sectionalism

Daniel S. Dupre

10. Toward a Social History of the Corporation: Shareholding in Pennsylvania, 1800–1840

John Majewski

11. Small-Producer Capitalism in Early National Philadelphia

Donna J. Rilling

12. The Unfree Origins of American Capitalism

Seth Rockman

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Index

“The diversity of the contributions and the variety of interpretive and methodological approaches speak to the richness of the work of economic historians since 1985.

Matson’s volume provides a valuable introduction to and survey of the historiography of the early American economy . . . and it reveals a field that has abandoned narrow definitions of economic history in an effort to incorporate the insights of other approaches and disciplines.”

—A. Glenn Crothers, Journal of Southern History

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