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COLONIAL DAYS THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR This Prologue consists of three chapters. The first chapter traces the changes in the American economy from the early settlement through the Civil War. The second chapter discusses the development of an advanced economy over the past century. The third chapter emphasizes the inter
Includes evidence of American colonial consumer prices dating to the 1600s, including a Salem, Massachusetts grocery bill from 1629 showing soap, candles, etc. Source: History of manufactures in the United States, 1607-1860, starting with p. 136.
An examination of farm account books in the northern colonies has revealed that local price fluctuations moved in synchronization with prices in the principal port cities, suggesting a high degree of market integration.
2 dni temu · Shows wholesale prices of coal and metals, textiles, food and drink, and other miscellaneous goods throughout the 19th century and into the 20th century. Source: Wholesale and resale prices TRANSPORTATION
Stage I: Commerce and Trade in Colonial America, 1607 to 1789. This was the period of the general merchant and merchant trader in the northern colonies and the plantation planter and factor in the southern colonies, where the emphasis was on such cash crops as tobacco, rice, and indigo.
21 maj 2018 · Newspaper price currents, as well as prices compiled from probate inventories and merchant account books, become prevalent enough at various points in the eighteenth century to construct yearly price indices for some colonies.
11 maj 2010 · The purpose of this paper is to present some of the findings and contentions of our forthcoming study of shipping, distribution, and overseas trade in colonial America from the middle of the seventeenth century to the American Revolution, with emphasis upon the later years.
