The House of Hancock : : Business in Boston, 1724-1775 / / William T. Baxter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Baxter, William T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1945
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard Studies in Business History ; 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (321 p.) :; 8 illustrations; 2 tables; 2 charts

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• TABLES AND CHARTS
• ILLUSTRATIONS
• LIST OF CHIEF LIBRARIES CONTAINING HANCOCK MATERIAL
• EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
• AUTHOR’S PREFACE
• PART I. THOMAS HANCOCK, 1724–1764
• CHAPTER I. Introduction to Thomas
• CHAPTER II. Trade Without Money
• CHAPTER III. From Bookseller to General Merchant, 1725–1735
• CHAPTER IV. The Beginning of Roundabout Overseas Trade, c.1728–1738
• CHAPTER V. Upsetting Forces, c. 1738
• CHAPTER VI. The War of Jenkins’ Ear 1739–1744
• CHAPTER VII. King George’s War, 1774–1748
• CHAPTER VIII. Peace and Depression, 1748–1754
• CHAPTER IX. The French and Indian War 1755–1763
• CHAPTER Χ. A New Foreign Trade Policy 1763–August, 1764
• CHAPTER XI. Everyday Business Life in Colonial Boston
• PART II. JOHN HANCOCK, 1764–1775
• CHAPTER XII. Change of Government 1764–1766
• CHAPTER XIII. John’s Policy of Expansion 1766–1768
• CHAPTER XIV. Non-Importation, 1768–1770
• CHAPTER XV. The Death of the Business 1771–1775
• CHAPTER XVI. Conclusions
• INDEX