M&D rambulatory yammerings

[gary webb]

Bernard Bailyn is also an excellent resource, although his early work
focuses mostly on New England, but Voyagers to the West is interesting, and
so is Ideological Origins as well, but save that for another topic...

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 9:27 PM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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_
>
>
> >
> > 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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