A Country Storekeeper in Pennsylvania: Creating Economic Networks in Early America, 1790-1807

by Diane Wenger

In early America, traditional commercial interaction revolved around an entity known as the general store. Unfortunately, most of these elusive small-town shops disappeared from our society without leaving business-related documents behind for scholars to analyze. This gap in the historical knowledge of America has made it difficult to understand the nature of the networks and trade relationships that existed between cities and the surrounding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271034130
• ISBN13: 9780271034133
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"