Rum and Axes: The Rise of a Connecticut Merchant Family, 1795–1850 9781501718137
Janet Siskind goes back to the beginnings of industrial capitalism in the United States to better understand the formati
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Voyage
2. Capital, Kin, and Connections
3. Balancing the Books
4. Continuity and Change
5. The Collins Company
6. Breaking Community, Building Class
7. For Their Own Good
Conclusion: Distancing Production
Abbreviations
Notes
References
Index
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Rum and Axes
A volume in the series Anthropology of Contemporary Issues Edited by Roger Sanjek
RumandAxes
of a Connecticut Merchant Family, 1795-1850 JANET SISKIND Cornell University Press Ithaca & London
Portions of Chapters 5 and 6 appeared in Medical Anthropology Q!,tarterly 2:199-214, 1988, and Dialectical Anthropology 16:35-48, 1991. Copyright © 2002 by Cornell University All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. First published 2002 by Cornell University Press
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Siskind, Janet. Rum and axes : the rise of a Connecticut merchant family, 1795-1850 I Janet Siskind. p. em. - (Anthropology of contemporary issues) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8014-8920-4 1. Connecticut-Commerce-History. 2. MerchantsConnecticut. I. Title. II. Series. HF3I6I.C7 S57 2001 381' .09746--