The Enlightenment in America, 1720-1825 Vol 1

Volume 1: Economy and Finance Politics Introduction Economy and Finance Early Paper Money and Land Bank Disputes [Anon.], New News f om Robinson Cruso’s Island, in a Letter to a Gentleman at Portsmouth (1720) J. M., Some Proposals to Benefit the Province (1720) ‘A Lover of his Country’, Money the Sinews of Trade (1731) Manufactory Company, Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, In Order to Redress the Distressing Circumstances which the Trade of the Province Labours under for Want of a Medium, Other Methods Having Failed, it is Proposed to Set up a Bank on Land Security, No Person to be Admitted but Such as Dwell in this Province, and Hath a Real State Therein (1740) Paper Money Debates and Institutional Innovation in the Revolutionary Era [Anon.], ‘Extract from an Address to the Representatives of the People of Virginia’, American Museum ( July 1787) [Anon.], ‘Queries and Replies Relative to Paper Money’, American Museum ( July 1787) Boston Tontine Association, The Constitution of the Boston Tontine Association (1791) Plans for Reform in the Early Republic Erick Bollmann, Plan of an Improved System of the Money-Concerns of the Union (1816) James Swan, An Address to the President, Senate and House of Representatives, of the United States, on The Means of Creating a National Paper by Loan Of ces, which Shall Replace that of Discredited Banks, and Supercede the Use of Gold and Silver Coin (1819) Theoretical Discussions on Money and Political Economy [ J. C. L. Simonde de Sismondi], ‘Political Economy’, Second American Edition of the New Edinburgh Encyclopaedia (1817) [ John McVickar], ‘Art. XXV. – Essay on Money. – Supplement to the Encyclopædeia Britannica, Vol. V. Part II. Edinburgh. 1822’, New York Review and Athenaeum Magazine (September 1825) Politics Abolition and Slavery A. B. [Nathaniel Appleton], Considerations on Slavery. In a Letter to a Friend (1767) Revolutionary Political Ideology and Political Theory [ John Allen], The American Alarm, or the Bostonian Plea, for the Rights, and Liberties, of the People. Humbly Addressed to the King and Council, and to the Constitutional Sons of Liberty in America, by the British Bostonian (1773) New York Committee of Safety, Essays upon the Making of Salt-Petre and Gun-Powder (1776) [Anon.], Rudiments of Law and Government, Deduced f om the Law of Nature; Particularly Addressed to the People of South Carolina, but Composed on Principles Applicable to All Mankind (1783) Democratic Society of the City New York, An Address of the Demo[1]cratic Society, of the City of New-York, to the Republican Citizens of the United States (1794) Institutional Innovation: Constitutions The Proposed Plan or Frame of Government for the Commonwealth or State of Pennsylvania: Printed for your Consideration (1776) Vermont Constitution of July 8, 1777 ([1777]) [Anon.], ‘An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, Northwest of the River Ohio’, New-Haven Gazette, and the Connecticut Magazine (August 1787) Editorial Notes

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