From Market-Places to a Market Economy: The Transformation of Rural Massachusetts, 1750-1850 Nonfiction Published fifty years after the

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From Market-Places to a Market Economy: The Transformation of Rural Massachusetts, 1750-1850 Nonfiction Published fifty years after theIn this highly original empirical study, Winifred Barr Rothenberg documents the emergence of a market economy in rural Massachusetts between 1785 and 1800decades before America's first industrial revolution. Drawing data from exhaustive research in farm account books, probate documents, and town tax valuations, the author makes a significant contribution to the debate about the pace, pattern, and genesis of growth in the early American economy.