The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century
By Bernard Bailyn.
Description
By the middle of the eighteenth century the merchants were dominant figures in the northern American colonies, powerful economically, politically, and socially. But in New England this preeminence had not been present in the first years of settlement; it had been achieved in the course of three generations of social development as the merchants often Puritans themselves, rose within the Bible Commonwealths to challenge the domination of the Puritan fathers.In lively detail Mr. Bailyn here presents the struggle of the merchants to achieve full social recognition as their successes in trade a...
ISBN(s)
0674612809, 9780674612808
