From Dependency to Independence: Economic Revolution in Colonial New England

From Dependency to Independence: Economic Revolution in Colonial New England by Newell, Margaret Ellen. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780801434051.

In a sweeping synthesis of a crucial period of American history, From Dependency to Independence starts with theproblemof New Englands economic development. As a struggling outpost of a powerful commercial empire, colonial New England grappled with problems familiar to modern developing societies: a lack of capital and managerial skills, a nonexistent infrastructure, and a domestic economy that failed to meet the inhabitantsneeds or to generate exports. Yet, less than a century and a half later, New England staged the war for political independence and the industrial revolution. How and why did this transformation occur? Marshaling an enormous array of research data, Margaret Ellen Newell demonstrates that colonial New Englands economic development and its leadership role in these two American revolutions were interrelated.