Thomas M. Doerflinger
Series: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Copyright Date: 1986
Published
by: University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 430
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807839386_doerflinger
Book Description:
A social, economic, and political study of Philadelphia merchants, this study presents both the spirit and statistics of merchant life. Doerflinger studies the Philadelphia merchant community from three perspectives: their commercial world, their confrontation with the Revolution and its aftermath, and their role in diversifying the local economy. The analysis of entrepreneurship dominates the study and challenges long-standing assumptions about American economic history.
eISBN: 978-1-4696-0127-4
Subjects: Economics, Business, History