Town Born The Political Economy of New England from Its Founding to the Revolution

Name: Town Born The Political Economy of New England from Its Founding to the Revolution
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ISBN: 9780812222470

ISBN-10: 0812222474

ISBN-13: 9780812222470

Edition: 2010

Authors: Barry Levy

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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, British colonists found the New World full of resources. With land readily available but workers in short supply, settlers developed coercive forms of labor—indentured servitude and chattel slavery—in order to produce staple export crops like rice, wheat, and tobacco. This brutal labor regime became common throughout most of the colonies. An important exception was New England, where settlers and their descendants did most work themselves.InTown 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…

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List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 3/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.188

Barry Levy is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is author of Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley.