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Founding choices American economic policy in the 1790s /

Table of Contents: “…Rousseau -- Federal and state commercial banking policy in the federalist era and beyond / Howard Bodenhorn -- The other foundings: federalism and the constitutional structure of American government / John Joseph Wallis -- Business organization and the factors of production. …”
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Creating the British Atlantic essays on transplantation, adaptation, and continuity / by Greene, Jack P.

Table of Contents: “…Hemispheric history and atlantic history -- Reformulating Englishness : cultural adaptation and provinciality in the construction of corporate identity in colonial British America -- State formation, resistance, and the creation of revolutionary traditions in the early modern era -- Colonial history and national history : reflections on a continuing problem -- Transatlantic colonization and the redefinition of empire in the early modern era : the British-American experience -- Traditions of consensual governance in the construction of state authority in the early modern European empires in America -- Britain's overseas empire before 1780 : overwhelmingly successful and bureaucratically challenged -- "Of liberty and of the colonies" : a case study of constitutional conflict in the mid-eighteenth-century British American empire -- : the perils of success -- An empire of freemen? …”
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Reading publics : New York City's public libraries, 1754-1911 / by Glynn, Tom, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Readers, Libraries, and New York City Before 1911 -- Chapter 1: The New York Society Library: Books, Authority, and Publics in Colonial and Early Republican New York -- Chapter 2: Books for a Reformed Republic: The Apprentices' Library in Antebellum New York -- Chapter 3: The Past in Print: History and the Market at the New-York Historical Society Library -- Chapter 4: The Biblical Library of the American Bible Society: Evangelicalism and the Evangelical Corporation Chapter 5: Commerce and Culture: Recreation and Self-Improvement in New York's Subscription Libraries -- Chapter 6: "Men of Leisure and Men of Letters": New York's Public Research Libraries -- Chapter 7: Scholars and Mechanics: Libraries and Higher Learning in Nineteenth-Century New York -- Chapter 8: New York's Free Circulating Libraries: The Mission of the Public Library in the Gilded Age -- Chapter 9: The Founding of the New York Public Library: Public and Private in the Progressive Era -- Conclusion: New York's Public Libraries and the Elusive Reading Publics -- Works Cited -- Notes.…”
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