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Thomas D. Curtis - Riches, Real Estate, and Resistance: How Land Speculation, Debt, and Trade Monopolies Led to the American Revolution - 9781118973929 - V9781118973929
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Riches, Real Estate, and Resistance: How Land Speculation, Debt, and Trade Monopolies Led to the American Revolution

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Description for Riches, Real Estate, and Resistance: How Land Speculation, Debt, and Trade Monopolies Led to the American Revolution Hardcover. Series: AJES: Studies in Economic Reform and Social Justice. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 362.

Was the American Revolution fought to achieve abstract ideals of individual freedom or to serve economic interests? "Both!" is the answer provided by Prof. Thomas D. Curtis in this intriguing study. He shows how British policy, particularly as it related to the speculation in lands on the western frontier (in the Appalachias and the Ohio Valley), had the unintended effect of uniting diverse interests into a force for rebellion. The leaders included heavily indebted southern landowners (including George Washington), northern urban land speculators (including Benjamin Franklin), and wealthy northern merchants who feared, after 1773, that England would impose trade monopolies ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
Series
AJES: Studies in Economic Reform and Social Justice
Number of Pages
187
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781118973929
SKU
V9781118973929
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About Thomas D. Curtis
Thomas D. Curtis is a retired professor of economics whose research interests have been economic history, history of economic thought, and comparative economic systems. He received his B.S. and M.A. from Ball State University and his Ph.D. in economics from Indiana University. He taught at Indiana University, the University of Arizona, the University of Oklahoma and the University of South ... Read more

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