Entrepreneurs

by Wright, Conrad Edick; Viens, Katheryn P.; Massachusetts Historical Society

• ISBN13: 9780934909709
• ISBN10: 0934909709
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-05-01
• Publisher: Massachusetts Historical Society

Summary

Essays on subjects such as 18th-century women shopkeepers and African American businessmen in the antebellum period, along with writings focused on more traditional topics such as the China trade and the New England textile industry.

Table of Contents

Preface
A Revolution in Economic Thought: Currency and Development in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts	p. 1
Boston Artisan Entrepreneurs of the Goldsmithing Trade in the Decades before the Revolution	p. 23
'Who shall say we have not equal abilitys with the Men when Girls of 18 years of age discover such great capacitys?': Women of Commerce in Boston, 1750-1776	p. 39
Markets, Merchants, and the Wider World of Boston Wine, 1700-1775	p. 63
Persistence and Change within the Boston Business Community, 1775-1790	p. 97
Debt and Taxes: Public Finance and Private Economic Behavior in Postrevolutionary Massachusetts	p. 121
Marine Insurance in Boston: The Early Years of the Boston Marine Insurance Company, 1799-1807	p. 151
From Carpenter to Capitalist: The Business of Building in Postrevolutionary Boston	p. 181
The Boston Book Trades, 1789-1850: A Statistical and Geographical Analysis	p. 211
The Partnership Form of Organization: Its Popularity in Early-Nineteenth-Century Boston	p. 269
The Politics of Honor: The Massachusetts Conservative Elite and the Trials of Amalgamation, 1824-1829	p. 297
Power and Social Responsibility: Entrepreneurs and the Black Community in Antebellum Boston	p. 325
The Making of an Empire: Boston and Essex County, 1790-1850	p. 343
What the Merchants Did with Their Money: Charitable and Testamentary Trusts in Massachusetts, 1780-1880	p. 365
Contributors	p. 423
Index	p. 425
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