1st Edition

The Foundations of the American Economy Vol 2 The American Colonies from Inception to Independence

488 Pages
by Routledge

488 Pages
by Routledge

This collection brings together a comprehensive selection of documents from the history of US and Canadian economic thought from the seventeenth century through to 1900.

VOLUME II Individualism and the Structure of Power: John Cotton, An Abstract of Laws and Government (1655) Sir William Berkeley, A Discourse and View of Virginia (1663) Cotton Mather, excerpt from Bonifacius. An Essay Upon the Good (1710) John Hepburn, The American Defence of the Christian Golden Rule (1715) Thomas Pownall, excerpt from A Treatise on Government (1750) John Woolman, Considerations on Keeping Negroes (1762) James Swan, A Dissuasion to Great-Britain and the Colonies (1772) Joel Barlow, excerpts from Advice to the Privileged Orders (1793)

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Edited by Marianne Johnson, Steven G. Medema, Warren J. Samuels