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the Federal Debt During the Confederation," Mississippi Valley Historical
Review 38 (1951),
403—24;
Joseph S. Davis,
Essays
in the Earlier History of
American
Corporations,
2 vols. (Cambridge, MA, 1917); and Janet Ries-
man, "Money, Credit, and Federalist Political Economy," in Richard
Beeman et al., eds., Beyond
Confederation:
Origins of
the
Constitution and
American National Identity (Chapel Hill, 1987),
128-61.
For the vision of political economists in the 1780S-90S and the glim-
merings of manufactures, see Samuel Rezneck, "The Rise and Early Devel-
opment of Industrial Consciousness in the United States, 1760—1830,"
Journal of
Economic
and
Business
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784—811;
Drew McCoy,
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Republic:
Political
Economy in Jeffersonian
America (Chapel Hill,
1980);
and Cathy D. Matson and Peter S.
Onuf,
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Interests:
Economy
and
Politics
in the
Revolutionary
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Other valuable works on the 1790s include Merrill D. Peterson,
"Thomas Jefferson and Commercial Policy, 1783-1793," William and
Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 21 (1965), 584-610; John R. Nelson, Jr.,
"Alexander Hamilton and American Manufacturing: A Reexamination,"
Journal of
American
History 65 (1979), 971-95; and Douglass C. North,
The
Economic
Growth of the United
States,
1790-1860 (Englewood Cliffs,
NJ, 1961), chaps. 1 and 2. A recent influential view is found in Joyce
Appleby, Capitalism and a New Social
Order:
The Republican Vision of the
1790's (New York, 1984).
Until relatively recently, only a few scholars studied the economic
developments that affected early formers, westward migrants, rural shop-
keepers, and protomanufacturers. But see older works by Percy Bidwell
and John Falconer, History of Agriculture in the Northern United States,
1620—1860 (Washington, D.C., 1925); Victor S. Clark, A History of
Manufactures in the United States, Vol. 1: 1607-1860, (Washington, D.C.,
1929);
and their citations. New research about this majority of Ameri-
cans,
including their economic roles as both producers and consumers,
promises to increase our knowledge of the era significantly. See, for exam-
ple,
Carole Shammas, "How Self-Sufficient Was Early America?" Journal
of
Interdisciplinary
History 13 (1982), 247-72; Billy G. Smith, "The Material
Lives of Laboring Philadelphians, 1750-1800," William and Mary Quar-
terly, 3d. Ser., 38 (1981), 163-202; Joan Jensen, "Cloth, Butter, and
Boarders: Women's Household Production for the Market," Reviews in
Radical Political
Economy
12 (1980), 14-24; and Lois Green Carr and
Lorena S. Walsh, "Economic Diversification and Labor Organization in
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