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Instead of concentrating on the issues of the Colonies versus Britain, the editor has chosen sources which illustrate domestic American problems and changes over all the more important fields of political, economic, social and intellectual life. The collection is arranged in five parts. Part 1 deals with the great problem of continental government, from the Continental Congress to the Federal Constitution, and beginning with the Albany Plan of Union...
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"In The Roots of American Industrialization Meyer reexamines previous studies, provides new evidence, and presents a new explanation. He argues that agriculture and industry both grew and transformed, thus constituting mutually reinforcing processes. Eastern agriculture thrived from 1790 to 1860, and rising farm productivity permitted surplus labor to enter factories and provided swelling food supplies for growing rural and urban populations. Farms...
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"When he died a few months short of his eighty-fifth birthday, John Jacob Astor was the richest man in the United States. The fortune he left behind represented an astounding one-fifteenth of all personal wealth in America. Now, in this biography, author Axel Madsen deftly examines the private life of the first multinational entrepreneur of the New World." "John Jacob Astor tells the tale of this German-born son of a butcher who made his fortune in...
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"Through an original analysis of slavery as an economic institution, Gavin Wright presents a fresh look a the economic divergence between North and South in the antebellum era. Wright draws a distinction between slavery as a form of work organization (the aspect that has dominated historical debates) and slavery as a set of property rights. Slaves could be purchased and carried to any location where slavery was legal; they could be assigned to any...
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Ten leading scholars of early American social history here examine the nature of work and labor in America from 1614 to 1820. The authors scrutinize work diaries, private and public records, and travelers' accounts. Subjects include farmers, farmwives, urban laborers, plantation slave workers, midwives, and sailors; locales range from Maine to the Caribbean and the high seas.
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