ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND (1620 - 1789)
Book Details + Condition: Houghton, Mifflin and Company (Boston and New York). First Edition, 1890. Complete two-volume hardcover set. Pagination: 447pp; 428pp - plus Appendix, Index and Advertisements. An extensive comprehensive history of New England from economic, social, religious and political perspectives. Content includes:
- The Founding of New England
- Home and Community
- Aboriginal Intercourse with the Colonists
- Social Management of Common Lands
- The Political, Religious and Social Community
- Agriculture, Fish and Furs
- Artificial Prices and Rates of Wages
- Early Travel, Roads, and Inns
- Manners and Morals
- Effects of a Puritan Social System
- Privateers, Pirates, and Their Relations to Commerce
- The Whale-Fishery
- The African-Slave Trade
- And more.
From the massive collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. For both volumes: firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; light wear to boards; interior is clean and free of markings. For Vol I: Parker's bookplate to inside front board and info to ffep, and related newspaper clippings glued to rear endpapers. For Vol II: related newspaper clippings glued to front & rear endpapers; Parker's bookplate to ffep; inked name to title page.
