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Century and Emerging Capitalism I. Conflicting Perspectives
A. Progressives on Conflict
B. Neoconservatives on Consensus
and Market
C. Social-Family approach
D. Community, family vs. individual
acquisition
II. Moral Economy of Subsistence
A. New England
1. Studies of New England
communities: Concord
2. Towns resemble traditional
peasant villages
3. Moral economy preferable to
capitalism
4. Farmers produce for family
and community
5. Resistance in Connecticut
river valley
III. Market Economy
A. Market activity of farmers,
artisans, and laborers
1. Trade, exports, land
speculation
B. Carlisle, Pennsylvania
1. Emerging market activity:
agrarian entrepreneurs trying to maximize profits
2. Merchants, millers, traders
networks from local area to Philadelphia and
Baltimore and west to frontier
a. grain, lumber, roads,
carrying trade
b. fur trade, warehouses,
English imports
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