Securing the commonwealth: debt, speculation, and writing in the making of early America
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Main Author: Baker, Jennifer J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2008, c2005
Edition:Johns Hopkins pbk. ed
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-207) and index
1: New world ventures -- Crisis and faith in the Puritan Society -- Making much of nothing in the Chesapeake -- 2: The price of independence -- Benjamin Franklin's projections -- Performing redemption on the national stage -- 3: Bonds of the new nation -- Arthur Mervyn and the reader's investments -- The medium between calculation and feeling
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 218 p.)
ISBN:0801897157
9780801897153