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Marketing, Commerce, and Capitalism in Rural Massachusetts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Michael A. Bernstein  and
Sean Wilentz
Michael A. Bernstein
Affiliation:
Assistant Professors of History at Princeton University.
Sean Wilentz
Affiliation:
Assistant Professors of History at Princeton University.
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , March 1984 , pp. 171 - 173
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1984

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1 See Rona S. Weiss, “The Market and Massachusetts Farmers, 1750–1850: A Comment”, and Rothenberg, Winifred B., “The Market and Massachusetts Farmers: Reply”, this JOURNAL, 43 (06 1983), 475–80.Google Scholar

2 See, for example, the essays collected in The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism, Introduction by Rodney Hilton (London, 1976).Google Scholar

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4 See, for the nineteenth-century United States, Hahn, Steven, The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry (New York, 1983).Google Scholar On other times and places, see Finley, Moses I., The Ancient Economy (London, 1975);Google ScholarSahlins, Marshall, Stone Age Economics (Chicago, 1972);Google Scholar and Agnew, Jean-Christophe, “The Threshold of Exchange: Speculations on the Market”, Radical History Review, 21 (Fall 1979), 99–118.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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