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Stability and change in Revolutionary Pennsylvania : banking, politics, and social structure

Title: Stability and change in Revolutionary Pennsylvania : banking, politics, and social structure / George David Rappaport.
Author: Rappaport, George David.
Publication: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1996], ©1996.

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xix, 276 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Stability and Change in Revolutionary Pennsylvania examines the society and economy of Pennsylvania from about 1740 to 1790, the period that many historians have identified as formative in the making of modern America. Did the Quaker province become truly "modern" during this period? No, says George Rappaport, but he suggests that by 1790 modernization had begun. Rappaport is almost unique among Early American historians in his application of explicit social-scientific models to historical evidence.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-268) and index.

Contents

1. The Capitalist Question -- 2. Traditional or Modern? -- 3. The Associational System -- 4. Politics, Conflict, and Parties -- 5. Politics: A Class Analysis -- 6. The Birth of a Bank -- 7. The Seeds of War -- 8. Destroying the Monster -- 9. The Bank Reborn -- App. A. Analysis of the Discount Ledger of the Bank of North America, January 7, 1782, to February 6, 1783 -- App. B. A Note on the Methodology Used to Analyze the Discount Ledger of the Bank of North America, January 7, 1782, to February 1783 -- App. C. English-Language Newspaper Articles and Pamphlets on the Bank of North America Published in Philadelphia, 1784-1787.

ISBN

0271015314 (alk. paper)

LCCN

95035472

OCLC

ocm32894404

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