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| Business and Us | |
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| Essays | |
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| Why Study Business History? | |
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| What Is a Firm? | |
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| Considering Businesswomen | |
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| Do Business and Government Get Along? | |
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| Sellers,Business and the Environment | |
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| Capitalism in Early America | |
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| Documents | |
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| Benjamin Franklin Coaches an Ambitious Tradesman, 1748 | |
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| John Woolman's Christian Conscience Impels Him to Leave Retailing, 1756 | |
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| Farmers Ask the Rhode Island Assembly to Regulate Commercial Fishing, 1766 | |
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| Iron Masters Petition Rhode Island Lawmakers for Water Rights, 1769 | |
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| Promoter Alexander Cluacute;ny Extols Florida's Virtues, 1770 | |
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| Merchant-Planter Henry Laurens Reflects on Florida's Challenges, 1766 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Entrepreneurial Spirit in Colonial America | |
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| Farmers and the Anticommercial Impulse in New England | |
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| Planting East Florida: The Harsh Reality of Mosquito's Bite Plantation | |
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| Merchants and Commercial Networks in the Atlantic World, 16801790 | |
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| Virginia Merchant-Planter William Fitzhugh Describes His Tobacco Plantation, 1686 | |
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| Boston Merchant Thomas Hancock Launches a Covert Voyage to Amsterdam, 1742 | |
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| New York Merchant Gerard G. Beekman Insures Slave Cargo from Africa, 1749 | |
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| A Hudson's Bay Factor Orders Merchandise for His Indian Customers, 1739 | |
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| Boston Shopkeeper Lewis Deblois Advertises the Latest London Goods, 1757 | |
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| Revolutionary Era Merchants Explain the Causes of Inflation, 1779 | |
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| Tench Coxe Proposes a Chamber of Commerce, 1784 | |
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| Antifederalist George Bryan Attacks the Merchant Junto, 1788 | |
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| A Merchant-Speculator Encourages Europeans to Invest in Western Land, 1788 | |
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| Essays | |
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| British Merchants, the Slave Trade, and the Transatlantic Economy | |
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| Fur Trading on the Frontier: The Hudson's Bay Company and Indian Consumers | |
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| Philadelphia Merchants and the Rise of Federalist Power in the New Nation | |
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| 4 Public and Private Interests in the Transition to Industrialization, 17901860 | |
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| Documents | |
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| The Corporation as an Artificial Being, 1809 | |
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| Corporations and Contracts, 1819 | |
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| Corporations and Bankruptcy, 1840 | |
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| The Corporation Becomes an Artificial Citizen, 1844 | |
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| Nathan Appleton Explains How Banks Benefit Everyone, 1831 | |
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| William W. Gouge Decries Banks as Corporations, 1833 | |
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| Baltimore PatriotSupports Government Regulation of Telegraphy, 1845 | |
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| New York Journal of CommercePresses for Privatization of Telegraphy, 1846 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Shape of the Firm: Partnerships and Corporations | |
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| Financial Innovation in the New Nation | |
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| Building the First Information Highway: The Deregulation of Telegraphy | |
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| A Georgia Planter Instructs His Overseer, 1832 | |
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| A Carolina Industrialist Explains Why Factories Are Good for the South, 1845 | |
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| Frederick Douglass Remembers the Slave Trade, 1852 | |
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| Louisiana's Slave Laws Simplified, 1853 | |
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| A Virginia Iron Master Hires a Slave Workforce, 1856 | |
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| Senator James Henry Hammond Declares "Cotton Is King," 1858 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Slave Traders of New Orleans | |
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| Running Buffalo Forge: Master, Slaves, and the Overwork System Drew Gilpin Faust | |
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| Hammond and the Plantation as a Business Enterprise | |
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| Documents 1 | |