Title Securing the commonwealth : debt, speculation, and writing in the making of early America / Jennifer J. Baker

Edition Johns Hopkins pbk. ed Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 218 pages) : illustrations Contents 1: New world ventures -- Crisis and faith in the Puritan Society -- Making much of nothing in the Chesapeake -- 2: The price of independence -- Benjamin Franklin's projections -- Performing redemption on the national stage -- 3: Bonds of the new nation -- Arthur Mervyn and the reader's investments -- The medium between calculation and feeling Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-207) and index Notes Print version record Subject American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 18th century Imperialism in literature. Economics in literature. Colonies in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature -- Colonial period Colonies in literature Economics in literature Imperialism in literature Intellectual life Politics and literature Amerikaans. Bellettrie. Schulden. Openbare schulden. Economische groei. Gemeenschapszin. SUBJECT United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140364 United States -- Intellectual life -- 17th century Subject United States Verenigde Staten. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780801897153 0801897157

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