Great merchants, investors, and industrialists have long dominated
the historiography of Boston business, but this collection of essays
urges a broader definition of the city's business community. Without
denying the economic importance of the major traders of colonial
Boston, or the merchants of the China trade, or the men who built New
England's textile industry, it also finds signs of vigorous
entrepreneurial activity in places where previously historians have
rarely looked - for instance, among artisans, women, and members of
minority communities. The volume comprises fourteen essays which
cover a wide range of topics, including: women shopkeepers in
eighteenth-century Boston, African-American businessmen and political
leadership in antebellum Boston, artisans as entrepreneurs, the
decline of Boston's wine trade, forms of business organization, and
what merchants did with their money.
Notes:
"The essays that make up this volume were first offered at the
Massachusetts Historical Society on May 20 and 24, 1994 at a
conference entitled 'Entrepreneurs: the Boston business community,
1700-1850'"--Pref.
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