From dependency to independence : economic revolution in colonial New England /
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 devel...
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- FROM DEPENDENCY TO INDEPENDENCE ; Contents ; Illustrations and Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Problem of Economic Development in Colonial New England; Part I. Political Economy, Culture, and Development in the Seventeenth Century; Chapter 1. ""A Second England"": English Background and Plans for Settlement ; Chapter 2. Regulation in the Wilderness; Chapter 3. The Promotional State; Chapter 4. Emulation of Empire; Chapter 5. Producers and Consumers; Part II. Economy and Ideology in Provincial New England; Chapter 6. The Idea of Money in Seventeenth-Century England and America
- Chapter 7. Paper Money and Public Policy, 1690-1714Chapter 8. ""A Poor Dependent State"": The Argument for Retrenchment; Chapter 9. The Virtues of the Internal Economy; Chapter 10. The Political Culture of Paper Money; Chapter 11. From the Land Bank to the Currency Act; Part III. The Political Economy of Revolution; Chapter 12. Development at Mid-Century; Chapter 13. The Imperial Crisis; Chapter 14. The Consequences of Independence; Epilogue: The Meaning of Development in New England; Index
