Town born : the political economy of New England from its founding to the Revolution /

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In Town Born, Barry Levy shows that New England's distinctive and far more egalitarian order was due neither to the colonists' peasant traditionalism nor to the region's inhospitable environment. Instead, New England's labor system and relative equality were every bit a consequen...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Levy, Barry
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2009.
Series:Early American studies.
Subjects:
To 1775
City and town life > New England > History.
Power (Social sciences) > New England > History.
Land settlement > New England > History.
Cities and towns > New England > History.
Vie urbaine > Nouvelle-Angleterre > Histoire.
Colonisation intérieure > Nouvelle-Angleterre > Histoire.
Villes > Nouvelle-Angleterre > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Cities and towns.
City and town life.
Economic history.
Land settlement.
Politics and government.
Power (Social sciences)
Social conditions.
Arbeitssystem
Politische Ökonomie
New England > Social conditions.
New England > Politics and government > To 1775.
New England > Economic conditions.
Nouvelle-Angleterre > Conditions sociales.
Nouvelle-Angleterre > Politique et gouvernement > Jusqu'à 1775.
Nouvelle-Angleterre > Conditions économiques.
New England.
Neuengland
"Multi-User"
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Foundations. Political economy
  • Stripes
  • Settlement
  • pt. 2. Development. Political fabric
  • Of wharves and men
  • Rural shipbuilding
  • Crews
  • pt. 3. Town people. Orphans
  • Prodigals or milquetoasts?
  • Epilogue.

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