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A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise

Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia

By: Thomas M. Doerflinger

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A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise

Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia

By: Thomas M. Doerflinger

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.

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430

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UNC Press Books

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0807839388

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9780807839386

Irish-American Trade, 1660-1783

By: Thomas M. Truxes

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Irish-American Trade, 1660-1783

By: Thomas M. Truxes

This book assaults well-established myths depicting Ireland's transatlantic trade as subordinate to British interests.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521526167

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9780521526166

The Overseas Trade of British America

A Narrative History

By: Thomas M. Truxes

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The Overseas Trade of British America

A Narrative History

By: Thomas M. Truxes

A sweeping history of early American trade and the foundation of the American economy "We could have no better guide than Truxes explaining incisively how American colonial merchants enriched their communities through licit and illicit trade, and how this enrichment was the product of slavery and the slave trade."--Nicholas Canny, author of Imagining Ireland's Pasts In a single, readily digestible, coherent narrative, historian Thomas M. Truxes presents the three hundred-year history of the overseas trade of British America. Born from seeds planted in Tudor England in the sixteenth century, Atlantic trade allowed the initial survival, economic expansion, and later prosperity of British America, and brought vastly different geographical regions, each with a distinctive identity and economic structure, into a single fabric. Truxes shows how colonial American prosperity was only possible because of the labor of enslaved Africans, how the colonial economy became dependent on free and open markets, and how the young United States owed its survival in the struggle of the American Revolution to Atlantic trade.

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465

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Yale University Press

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0300159889

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9780300159882

Embryo Politics

Ethics and Policy in Atlantic Democracies

By: Thomas Banchoff

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Embryo Politics

Ethics and Policy in Atlantic Democracies

By: Thomas Banchoff

Since the first fertilization of a human egg in the laboratory in 1968, scientific and technological breakthroughs have raised ethical dilemmas and generated policy controversies on both sides of the Atlantic. Embryo, stem cell, and cloning research have provoked impassioned political debate about their religious, moral, legal, and practical implications. National governments make rules that govern the creation, destruction, and use of embryos in the laboratory—but they do so in profoundly different ways. In Embryo Politics, Thomas Banchoff provides a comprehensive overview of political struggles about embryo research during four decades in four countries—the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France. Banchoff’s book, the first of its kind, demonstrates the impact of particular national histories and institutions on very different patterns of national governance. Over time, he argues, partisan debate and religious-secular polarization have come to overshadow ethical reflection and political deliberation on the moral status of the embryo and the promise of biomedical research. Only by recovering a robust and public ethical debate will we be able to govern revolutionary life-science technologies effectively and responsibly into the future.

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Cornell University Press

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0801461073

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9780801461071

Book's by Thomas M. Doerflinger

A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise

A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise

Irish-American Trade, 1660-1783

Irish-American Trade, 1660-1783

The Overseas Trade of British America

The Overseas Trade of British America

Embryo Politics

Embryo Politics

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