Author: PennsylvaniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Currency question
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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The Address of the Committee of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia to Their Fellow-citizens Throughout the United States
Author: PennsylvaniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Currency question
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
The Address of the Committee of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia to Their Fellow-citizens Throughout the United States
Author: PennsylvaniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Currency question
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
American Bibliography: 1779-1785
Author: Charles EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Checklist of Books Printed in America Before 1800 in the Libraries of Chicago
Author: Chicago Public Library Omnibus ProjectPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Trading Spaces
Author: Emma HartPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226833275
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
When we talk about the economy, “the market” is often just an abstraction. While the exchange of goods was historically tied to a particular place, capitalism has gradually eroded this connection to create our current global trading systems. In Trading Spaces, Emma Hart argues that Britain’s colonization of North America was a key moment in the market’s shift from place to idea, with major consequences for the character of the American economy. Hart’s book takes in the shops, auction sites, wharves, taverns, fairs, and homes of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America—places where new mechanisms and conventions of trade arose as Europeans re-created or adapted continental methods to new surroundings. Since those earlier conventions tended to rely on regulation more than their colonial offspring did, what emerged in early America was a less-fettered brand of capitalism. By the nineteenth century, this had evolved into a market economy that would not look too foreign to contemporary Americans. To tell this complex transnational story of how our markets came to be, Hart looks back farther than most historians of US capitalism, rooting these markets in the norms of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain. Perhaps most important, this is not a story of specific commodity markets over time but rather is a history of the trading spaces themselves: the physical sites in which the grubby work of commerce occurred and where the market itself was born.
Conceived in Crisis
Author: Christopher R. PearlPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813944554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Conceived in Crisis argues that the American Revolution was not just the product of the Imperial Crisis, brought on by Parliament’s attempt to impose a new idea of empire on the American colonies. To an equal or greater degree, it was a response to the inability of individual colonial governments to deliver basic services, which undermined their legitimacy. Factional bickering over policy, violent extralegal regulations, and the dreadful experiences of conducting an imperial war while governing a demographically growing and geographically expanding population all led colonists and imperial officials to consider reforming the colonial governments into more powerful and coercive entities. Using Pennsylvania as a case study, Christopher Pearl demonstrates how this history of ineffective colonial governance precipitated a process of state formation that was accelerated by the demands of the Revolutionary War. The powerful state governments that resulted dominated the lives of ordinary people well into the nineteenth century. Conceived in Crisis makes sense of the trajectory from weak colonial to strong revolutionary states, and in so doing explains the limited success of efforts to consolidate state power at the national level during the early Republican period.
A Century of Printing: 1764-1784
Author: Charles Riché HildeburnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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American Archives
Author: Peter ForcePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
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Address of the American Republicans of the City of Philadelphia, to the Native and Naturalized Citizens of the United States
Author: American Party (Philadelphia, Pa.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign literature
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The Remembrancer, Or Impartial Repository of Public Events
Author: John AlmonPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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