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
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His study is excellent: a concise and readable synthesis loaded with facts and figures about the colonial economy.
(Business History Review )Anyone who keeps up with the literature on colonial economic history will find Perkins' overview useful and insightful.... Perkins has moved us further out of the statistical 'dark age'.
(The Journal of Economic History ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.About the Author
Edwin J. Perkins is Professor of History at the University of Southern California.
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