Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia – serie
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Manufacturing Revolution
The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry
Inbunden, 2004
854 kr
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Lawrence A. Peskin argues that, in accounting for American industrialization, students of the phenomenon have focused mistakenly on large forces and theoretical constructs and on New England and the rise of factories as such. What, he asks, of the ordinary people who considered making things and …
Manufacturing Revolution
The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry
Häftad, 2007
369 kr
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Lawrence A. Peskin argues that, in accounting for American industrialization, students of the phenomenon have focused mistakenly on large forces and theoretical constructs and on New England and the rise of factories as such. What, he asks, of the ordinary people who considered making things and …
Scraping By
Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore
Av Seth Rockman
Häftad, 2009
443 kr
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Enslaved mariners, white seamstresses, Irish dockhands, free black domestic servants, and native-born street sweepers all navigated the low-end labor market in post-Revolutionary Baltimore. Seth Rockman considers this diverse workforce, exploring how race, sex, nativity, and legal status determined …
Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth
Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America
Häftad, 2010
468 kr
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In 1796, famed engineer and architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe toured the coal fields outside Richmond, Virginia, declaring enthusiastically, "Such a mine of Wealth exists, I believe, nowhere else!" With its abundant and accessible deposits, growing industries, and network of rivers and ports, …
Buying into the World of Goods
Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia
Häftad, 2010
369 kr
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How did people living on the early American frontier discover and then become a part of the market economy? How do their purchases and their choices revise our understanding of the market revolution and the emerging consumer ethos? Ann Smart Martin provides answers to these questions by examining …
Fragile Fabric of Union
Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War
Häftad, 2012
477 kr
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In this fresh study Brian Schoen views the Deep South and its cotton industry from a global perspective, revisiting old assumptions and providing new insights into the region, the political history of the United States, and the causes of the Civil War. Schoen takes a unique and broad approach. …
Investing in Life
Insurance in Antebellum America
Häftad, 2013
485 kr
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Investing in Life considers the creation and expansion of the American life insurance industry from its early origins in the 1810s through the 1860s and examines how its growth paralleled and influenced the emergence of the middle class. Using the economic instability of the period as her backdrop, …
Trouble with Tea
The Politics of Consumption in the Eighteenth-Century Global Economy
Inbunden, 2017
558 kr
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Americans imagined tea as central to their revolution. After years of colonial boycotts against the commodity, the Sons of Liberty kindled the fire of independence when they dumped tea in the Boston harbor in 1773. To reject tea as a consumer item and symbol of "taxation without representation" was …
Lobbyists and the Making of US Tariff Policy, 1816−1861
Av Daniel Peart
Inbunden, 2018
858 kr
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The first book-length study of lobbying prior to the Civil War.Since the 2008 global economic crisis, historians have embraced the challenge of making visible the invisible hand of the market. This renewed interest in the politics of political economy makes it all the more timely to remind …
Revolutionary Networks
The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763–1789
Inbunden, 2019
762 kr
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An engrossing and powerful story about the influence of printers, who used their commercial and political connections to directly shape Revolutionary political ideology and mass mobilization.Honorable Mention, St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize, Bibliographical Society of AmericaDuring the American …
Entangled Lives
Labor, Livelihood, and Landscapes of Change in Rural Massachusetts
Av Marla Miller
Inbunden, 2020
800 kr
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An enlightening look at American women's work in the late eighteenth century.What was women's work truly like in late eighteenth-century America, and what does it tell us about the gendered social relations of labor in the early republic? In Entangled Lives, Marla R. Miller examines the lives of …
From Captives to Consuls
Three Sailors in Barbary and Their Self-Making across the Early American Republic, 1770-1840
Av Brett Goodin
Inbunden, 2020
628 kr
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How three white, non-elite American sailors turned their experiences of captivity into diverse career opportunities—and influenced America's physical, commercial, ideological, and diplomatic development.Winner of the John Lyman Book Award by the North American Society for Oceanic HistoryFrom 1784 …
Grassroots Leviathan
Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic
Av Ariel Ron
Inbunden, 2021
742 kr
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How a massive agricultural reform movement led by northern farmers before the Civil War recast Americans' relationships to market forces and the state.Recipient of The Center for Civil War Research's 2021 Wiley-Silver Book Prize, Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award by the Agricultural …
Revolutionary Networks
The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763–1789
Häftad, 2021
502 kr
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An engrossing and powerful story about the influence of printers, who used their commercial and political connections to directly shape Revolutionary political ideology and mass mobilization.Honorable Mention, St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize, Bibliographical Society of AmericaDuring the American …
To Her Credit
Women, Finance, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England Cities
Inbunden, 2021
755 kr
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A transformative look at colonial women's pivotal roles as lenders and debtors in shaping the economic and legal systems of Newport and Boston.Winner of the Berkshire Women Historians Book Prize by the Berkshire Conference of Women HistoriansIn colonial Boston and Newport, personal credit …
Sustaining Empire
Venezuela's Trade with the United States during the Age of Revolutions, 1797–1828
Inbunden, 2022
765 kr
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Why did trade with the United States prolong Spanish colonial rule during the Venezuelan independence struggles?From 1790 to 1815, much of the Atlantic World was roiled by European imperial wars. While the citizens of the United States profited from the waste of blood and treasure, Spanish American …
Grassroots Leviathan
Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic
Av Ariel Ron
Häftad, 2023
443 kr
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How a massive agricultural reform movement led by northern farmers before the Civil War recast Americans' relationships to market forces and the state.Recipient of The Center for Civil War Research's 2021 Wiley-Silver Book Prize, Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award by the Agricultural …
Claiming Land, Claiming Water
Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic
Av Rachel B. Herrmann, Jessica Choppin Roney
Inbunden, 2026
755 kr
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Explores how and why people manipulated borders in the early modern Atlantic worldClaiming Land, Claiming Water shares what historians and geographers wish readers knew about maps and borders before, during, and after the founding of the United States. The essays collected in this volume model how …
Claiming Land, Claiming Water
Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic
Av Rachel B. Herrmann, Jessica Choppin Roney
E-bok, 2026
668 kr
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Explores how and why people manipulated borders in the early modern Atlantic worldClaiming Land, Claiming Water shares what historians and geographers wish readers knew about maps and borders before, during, and after the founding of the United States. The essays collected in this volume model how …
Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth
Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America
Inbunden, 2005
564 kr
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In 1796, famed engineer and architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe toured the coal fields outside Richmond, Virginia, declaring enthusiastically, "Such a mine of Wealth exists, I believe, nowhere else!" With its abundant and accessible deposits, growing industries, and network of rivers and ports, …
Buying into the World of Goods
Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia
Inbunden, 2008
517 kr
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How did people living on the early American frontier discover and then become a part of the market economy? How do their purchases and their choices revise our understanding of the market revolution and the emerging consumer ethos? Ann Smart Martin provides answers to these questions by examining …
Fragile Fabric of Union
Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War
Inbunden, 2009
604 kr
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In this fresh study Brian Schoen views the Deep South and its cotton industry from a global perspective, revisiting old assumptions and providing new insights into the region, the political history of the United States, and the causes of the Civil War. Schoen takes a unique and broad approach. …
Investing in Life
Insurance in Antebellum America
Inbunden, 2010
705 kr
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Investing in Life considers the creation and expansion of the American life insurance industry from its early origins in the 1810s through the 1860s and examines how its growth paralleled and influenced the emergence of the middle class. Using the economic instability of the period as her backdrop, …
Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom
Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South
Inbunden, 2011
631 kr
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Once a sleepy plantation society, the region from the Chesapeake Bay to coastal North Carolina modernized and diversified its economy in the years before the Civil War. Central to this industrializing process was slave labor. Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom tells the story of how slaves …
Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom
Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South
Häftad, 2011
336 kr
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Once a sleepy plantation society, the region from the Chesapeake Bay to coastal North Carolina modernized and diversified its economy in the years before the Civil War. Central to this industrializing process was slave labor. Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom tells the story of how slaves …
Governed by a Spirit of Opposition
The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia
Inbunden, 2015
403 kr
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During the colonial era, ordinary Philadelphians played an unusually active role in political life. Because the city lacked a strong central government, private individuals working in civic associations of their own making shouldered broad responsibility for education, poverty relief, church …
Trouble with Tea
The Politics of Consumption in the Eighteenth-Century Global Economy
Häftad, 2017
235 kr
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Americans imagined tea as central to their revolution. After years of colonial boycotts against the commodity, the Sons of Liberty kindled the fire of independence when they dumped tea in the Boston harbor in 1773. To reject tea as a consumer item and symbol of "taxation without representation" was …
Manufacturing Advantage
War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1776–1848
Inbunden, 2019
604 kr
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How manufacturing textiles and guns transformed the United States from colonial dependent to military power.In 1783, the Revolutionary War drew to a close, but America was still threatened by enemies at home and abroad. The emerging nation faced tax rebellions, Indian warfare, and hostilities with …
Fabric of Empire
Material and Literary Cultures of the Global Atlantic, 1650-1850
Inbunden, 2021
722 kr
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Revealing the entangled lives of texts and textiles in the early modern Atlantic world."Textiles are the books that the colony was not able to burn."—Asociación Femenina para el Desarrollo de Sacatepéquez (AFEDES)A history of the book in the Americas, across deep time, would reveal the origins of a …
