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The Economy of Colonial America

Edwin J. Perkins

出版	Columbia University Press, 1980
ISBN	02310495959780231049597
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=VYanQgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

This popular study, lauded by professors and scholars alike, has been diligently revised to reflect the tremendous amount of new research conducted during the last decade, and now includes a totally new chapter on women in the economy. Presenting a great deal of up-to-date information in a concise and lively style, the book surveys the main aspects of the colonial economy: population and economic expansion; the six main occupational groups (family farmers, indentured servants, slaves, artisans, great planters, and merchants); women in the economy; domestic and imperial taxes; the colonial monetary system; living standards for the typical family