The economy of early America : historical perspectives & new directions / edited by Cathy Matson

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Notes: "Published in cooperation with The Library Company of Philadelphia."
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