ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND - Weeden, 1st 1890 - AMERICAN HISTORY

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND (1620 - 1789)Book Details + Condition: Houghton, Mifflin and Company (Boston and New York). First Edition, 1890. Complete two-volume hardcover set. Pagination: 447pp; 428pp - plus Appendix, Index and Advertisements. An extensive comprehensive history of New England from economic, social, religious and political perspectives. Content includes:- The Founding of New England - Home and Community- Aboriginal Intercourse with the Colonists- Social Management of Common Lands- The Political, Religious and Social Community- Agriculture, Fish and Furs- Artificial Prices and Rates of Wages- Early Travel, Roads, and Inns - Manners and Morals- Effects of a Puritan Social System- Privateers, Pirates, and Their Relations to Commerce - The Whale-Fishery- The African-Slave Trade- And more. From the massive collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. For both volumes: firm binding; rubbed corners and e