|
|
Product Description
By the middle of the eighteenth century the merchants were dominant figures in the northern American colonies, powerful economically, politically, and socially. But in New England this preeminence had not been present in the first years of settlement; it had been achieved in the course of three generations of social development as the merchants often Puritans themselves, rose within the Bible Commonwealths to challenge the domination of the Puritan fathers.
In lively detail Mr. Bailyn here presents the struggle of the merchants to achieve full social recognition as their successes in trade and in such industries as fishing and lumbering offered them avenues to power. Surveying the rise of merchant families, he offers a portrait in depth of the emergence of a new social group whose interests and changing social position powerfully affected the developing character of American society.
The story of this group is the story of people and of their many–sided interests. The merchants were united by the demands of their common devotion to trade, yet they did not form a socially homogeneous unit. In fact their social differences―created in the confusions and dislocations of the early days of settlement came to play an important role in their business and political activities. Moreover, their commercial ventures, successes, and failures affected their social and political situation. Internationalists by occupation, they were deeply affected by personal relations with Europeans as well as by events in the Old World.
Drawing on source material from many fields―business records, religious and political data, literary remains, and genealogical information―Mr. Bailyn has discovered much that is new about the merchants, and has brought it all together into a composite portrait of our economic founding fathers that is fascinating in itself and that will reorient our thinking about many aspects of early New England history.
Features
- Used Book in Good Condition
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth-Century New England
- The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century
- The Pirates of the New England Coast 1630-1730 (Dover Maritime)
- The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America--The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
- American Colonies: The Settling of North America, Vol. 1
- Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
- Major Problems in American Colonial History (Major Problems in American History Series)
- The Radicalism of the American Revolution
- The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction
- Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History ... and the University of North Carolina Press)
*If this is not the "The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link
.
Details were last updated on Nov 11, 2024 05:13 +08.
