The New England Merchants In The Seventeenth Century

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It is social history as it has seldom been written and business history as it should be written--a story of people, not of prices and trends; of merchants, not mercantile houses.

The New England merchants in the seventeenth century.

American Historical Review This study should be of great interest to sociologists interested in social stratification, religion, and political behavior. The author has analyzed in detail the way in which the growth of trade in seventeenth century New England led to the emergence of an upper class based on mercantile wealth, and the gradual disintegration of the Puritan Commonwealth. American Sociological Review Read more You may have already requested this item.

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Bernard Bailyn is an American historian, author, and professor specializing in U.

Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He has been a professor at Harvard since Bailyn has won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice in and Books by Bernard Bailyn. No trivia or quizzes yet.

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