• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The Browns of Providence Plantations : Colonial Years
  • Contributor: Hedges, James B. [Author]
  • imprint: s.l.: Harvard University Press, 1952
    1952
  • Published in: Studies in Economic History
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 379 S.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674492714
  • ISBN: 9780674492714
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  • Keywords: Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr ; Merchants ; HISTORY / United States / General
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  • Description: Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. The Browns of Providence Plantations -- CHAPTER 2. "Molasses an Engine in the Hands of the Merchant" -- CHAPTER 3. "Prohibited Trade with the Vassalls of the French King" -- CHAPTER 4. "That Unrighteous Traffic" -- CHAPTER 5. "Spermaceti Candles Warranted Pure" -- CHAPTER 6. "A Furnace for Making Pigg Iron" -- CHAPTER 7. '"Settled Correspondents in the Neighboring Governments" -- CHAPTER 8. "Dry Goods from London and Bristol" -- CHAPTER 9. "Gentlemen of Publick Responsibility" -- CHAPTER 10. "American Grievances" -- CHAPTER 11. "Warlike Stores for the Continental Congress" -- CHAPTER 12. "Bills on France" -- CHAPTER 13. "Grait Zeal and Indefatigable Industor" -- CHAPTER 14. Back to London -- CHAPTER 15. The End of an Era -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- INDEX