From Dependency to Independence : : Economic Revolution in Colonial New England / / Margaret Ellen Newell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Newell, Margaret Ellen,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 3 maps, 25 photos

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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—1714
• Chapter 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