The King of the Alley

The King of the Alley
Author: Robert Francis Jones
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1992
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780871692023

Jones offers a full study of the career of late-18th century entrepreneur William Duer, a member of the New York State Convention and the Continental Congress, and assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury when the Federal government was organized. Duer had a role in all the significant changes that occurred during the revolutionary period.

The Emergence of a National Economy, 1775-1815

The Emergence of a National Economy, 1775-1815
Author: Curtis P. Nettels
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2017-07-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315496755

Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development of agriculture, transportation, labour movements and the factory system, foreign and domestic commerce, technology and the ramifications of slavery.

Jefferson and Hamilton

Jefferson and Hamilton
Author: John Ferling
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2014-10-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1608195430

One of America's foremost historians brilliantly brings to life the fierce struggle - both public and, ultimately, bitterly personal - between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton - two rivals whose opposing visions of what the United States should be continue to shape our country to this day.

Liberty Men and Great Proprietors

Liberty Men and Great Proprietors
Author: Alan Taylor
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807839973

This detailed exploration of the settlement of Maine beginning in the late eighteenth century illuminates the violent, widespread contests along the American frontier that served to define and complete the American Revolution. Taylor shows how Maine's militant settlers organized secret companies to defend their populist understanding of the Revolution.