Merchants and Trade of the Connecticut River Valley
Author : Margaret Elizabeth Martin
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File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 1938
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Author : Margaret Elizabeth Martin
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File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 1938
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Author : Margaret E. Martin
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Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,42 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
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ISBN : 9780879913823
Author : Margaret E. Martin
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Page : 664 pages
File Size : 30,1 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Connecticut
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Author : Margaret Elizabeth Martin
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Page : 302 pages
File Size : 19,87 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Connecticut River Valley
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Author : Margaret Ellen Newell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 2015-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 150170026X
In a sweeping synthesis of a crucial period of American history, From Dependency to Independence starts with the'problem'of New England's economic development. As a struggling outpost of a powerful commercial empire, colonial New England grappled with problems familiar to modern developing societies: a lack of capital and managerial skills, a nonexistent infrastructure, and a domestic economy that failed to meet the inhabitants'needs or to generate exports. Yet, less than a century and a half later, New England staged the war for political independence and the industrial revolution. How and why did this transformation occur? 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.
Author : David R. Meyer
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 2003-05-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801871412
Farms that were on poor soil and distant from markets declined, whereas other farms successfully adjusted production as rural and urban markets expanded and as Midwestern agricultural products flowed eastward after 1840. Rural and urban demand for manufactures in the East supported diverse industrial development and prosperous rural areas and burgeoning cities supplied increasing amounts of capital for investment.
Author : T. H. Breen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 2004-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0199727155
The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome difference and create a common cause capable of galvanizing resistance. In a richly interdisciplinary narrative that weaves insights into a changing material culture with analysis of popular political protests, Breen shows how virtual strangers managed to communicate a sense of trust that effectively united men and women long before they had established a nation of their own. The Marketplace of Revolution argues that the colonists' shared experience as consumers in a new imperial economy afforded them the cultural resources that they needed to develop a radical strategy of political protest--the consumer boycott. Never before had a mass political movement organized itself around disruption of the marketplace. As Breen demonstrates, often through anecdotes about obscure Americans, communal rituals of shared sacrifice provided an effective means to educate and energize a dispersed populace. The boycott movement--the signature of American resistance--invited colonists traditionally excluded from formal political processes to voice their opinions about liberty and rights within a revolutionary marketplace, an open, raucous public forum that defined itself around subscription lists passed door-to-door, voluntary associations, street protests, destruction of imported British goods, and incendiary newspaper exchanges. Within these exchanges was born a new form of politics in which ordinary man and women--precisely the people most often overlooked in traditional accounts of revolution--experienced an exhilarating surge of empowerment. Breen recreates an "empire of goods" that transformed everyday life during the mid-eighteenth century. Imported manufactured items flooded into the homes of colonists from New Hampshire to Georgia. The Marketplace of Revolution explains how at a moment of political crisis Americans gave political meaning to the pursuit of happiness and learned how to make goods speak to power.
Author : John L. Brooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,92 MB
Release : 2005-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521673396
Presents a synthetic view of the social grounding of republicanism and liberalism in Worchester Country, Massachusetts, from its settlement to the eve of the Civil War.
Author : Thomas M. Truxes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521526166
This book assaults well-established myths depicting Ireland's transatlantic trade as subordinate to British interests.
Author : John T. Cumbler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 37,90 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Connecticut River Valley
ISBN : 0195138139
This text is a study of the impact of industrialization and urbanization on the environment of New England in general and the Connecticut River Valley in particular, and of the varied public responses to the change engendered by the impact. Part one begins with a look at the early ways of life in the valley such as the struggle to extract a living and the transformation away from settled agriculture. Part two looks at the responses to these changes and into the roots of emerging social, economic, and political conflicts in the region. Part three argues that out of these conflicts emerged the idea of the state as mediating influence.