Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture Along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700-1800

by Peter C. Mancall

Book Overview

Valley of Opportunity recreates an age when Indians, colonists, and post-Revolutionary settlers embraced a similar dream: to create a successful economy in the rural hinterland of the middle colonies. Peter C. Mancall draws on abundant evidence from seldom-used archives in the region, as well as from libraries on both sides of the Atlantic, to reconstruct their daily economic life.

The author describes the varied economic transformations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801477166
• ISBN13: 9780801477164
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher