Bulls, bears, boom, and bust a historical encyclopedia of American business concepts

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ISBN: 9781851095582 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
ISBN: 1851095586 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
Physical Description: electronic
electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (xiii, 423 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2007.

General Note:	Description based on print version record.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Section 1 : Colonial America, 1607-1760 -- Key concepts -- Apprenticeship -- Book credit -- Bubble -- Charter, Royal -- Commodity money -- Dollar -- Enclosure -- Factor -- Fisheries -- Fur trae -- Guilds -- Head rights -- Indenture -- Joint-stock Company -- Lottery -- Manufacturing Acts -- Mercantilism -- Molasses Act -- Naval stores -- Navigation Acts -- Paper currency -- Pine tree shilling -- Plantation -- proprietary colonies -- Shipbuilding -- Slavery -- Staples -- Tobacco -- Trade balance -- Triangular trade -- Wage codes -- Wall Street -- Biographies -- Byrd, William, II -- Calvert, George -- Franklin, Benjamin -- Penn, William -- Raleigh, Sir Walter -- Rolfe, John --