A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise

A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise
Author: Thomas M. Doerflinger
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2012-12-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

A social, economic, and political study of Philadelphia merchants, this study presents both the spirit and statistics of merchant life. Doerflinger studies the Philadelphia merchant community from three perspectives: their commercial world, their confrontation with the Revolution and its aftermath, and their role in diversifying the local economy. The analysis of entrepreneurship dominates the study and challenges long-standing assumptions about American economic history.

The Way of the Ship

The Way of the Ship
Author: Alex Roland
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 0470136006

"The Way of the Ship offers a global perspective and considers both oceanic shipping and domestics shipping along America's coasts and inland waterways, with explanations of the forces that influenced the way of the ship. The result is an eye-opening, authoritative look at American maritime history and the ways it helped shape the nation's history."--BOOK JACKET.

Creole Gentlemen

Creole Gentlemen
Author: Trevor Burnard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136701885

Examining the lives of 460 of the wealthiest men who lived in colonial Maryland, Burnard traces the development of this elite from a hard-living, profit-driven merchant-planter class in the seventeenth century to a more genteel class of plantation owners in the eighteenth century. This study innovatively compares these men to their counterparts elsewhere in the British Empire, including absentee Caribbean landowners and East Indian nabobs, illustrating their place in the Atlantic economic network.

Elites, Enterprise and the Making of the British Overseas Empire1688-1775

Elites, Enterprise and the Making of the British Overseas Empire1688-1775
Author: H. Bowen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 267
Release: 1996-07-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230390196

This book examines the cultural, economic, and social forces that shaped the development of the British empire in the eighteenth century. The empire is placed in a broad historiographical context informed by important recent work on the 'fiscal-military state', and 'gentlemanly capitalism'. This allows the empire to be seen not as a series of discrete, unconnected geographical regions scattered across the world, but as a commercial, cultural, and social body with its roots very firmly planted in metropolitan society.

The Engine of Enterprise

The Engine of Enterprise
Author: Rowena Olegario
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2016-02-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0674051149

Tracing credit from colonial times to the present and highlighting its productive role in building national prosperity, Rowena Olegario probes questions that have divided Americans: Who should have access to credit? How should creditors assess creditworthiness? How can borrowers and lenders accommodate to the risks of a credit-dependent economy?

The Land of Enterprise

The Land of Enterprise
Author: Benjamin C. Waterhouse
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2017-04-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1476766649

Charting the development of American business from the colonial period to the present.

William Cooper's Town

William Cooper's Town
Author: Alan Taylor
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2018-11-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0525566996

William Cooper and James Fenimore Cooper, a father and son who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic, are brought to life in this Pulitzer Prize-winning book. William Cooper rose from humble origins to become a wealthy land speculator and U.S. congressman in what had until lately been the wilderness of upstate New York, but his high-handed style of governing resulted in his fall from power and political disgrace. His son James Fenimore Cooper became one of this country’s first popular novelists with a book, The Pioneers, that tried to come to terms with his father’s failure and imaginatively reclaim the estate he had lost. In William Cooper’s Town, Alan Taylor dramatizes the class between gentility and democracy that was one of the principal consequences of the American Revolution, a struggle that was waged both at the polls and on the pages of our national literature. Taylor shows how Americans resolved their revolution through the creation of new social reforms and new stories that evolved with the expansion of our frontier.

Merchant Enterprise in Britain

Merchant Enterprise in Britain
Author: Stanley Chapman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1992
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521893626

Studies of the British Industrial Revolution and of the Victorian period of economic and social development have until very recently concentrated on British industries and industrial regions, while commerce and finance, and particularly that of London, have been substantially neglected. This has distorted our view of the process of change, since financial services and much trade continued to be centred on the metropolis, and the south-east region never lost its position at the top of the national league of wealth.