M&D rambulatory yammerings

[alice malice]

Yes, two, for the question about transactions prior to 1790,  Edwin J.
Perkins _The Economy of Colonial America_ and then, for the explosion
after 1790, Alfred D. Chandler Jr.'s _The Visible Hand_


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> I'm no expert, but it seems to me that any colonial identity is bound to be
> more self-consciously transaction-based (a colony being a transaction to
> begin with) than a more 'organically' formed state.   I wonder, what did the
> Colonial trade breakdown look like in 1765, as opposed to, say, fifty years
> earlier?  Any ideas where to look for the British share of Colonial trade
> relative to the rest (inter-colonial, Native American, etc.) for this
> period, to see how things were 'trending' (I know trade shot up right around
> that time, but that was a credit bubble, right? that burst just before the
> Revolution? (...so was it a bank-led paradigm shift, then?)
>
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