This book explores the development of a provincial textile industry in colonial America. It is a social history of cloth-making that also employs the economic a

Early American Children’s Clothing and Textiles: Clothing a Child 1600–1800 explores the life experiences of Indigenous, Anglo-European, African, and mixed-

Older than both ceramics and metallurgy, textile production is a technology which reveals much about prehistoric social and economic development. This book exam

This book is a student reader of the key topics in American economic history.

Farms that were on poor soil and distant from markets declined, whereas other farms successfully adjusted production as rural and urban markets expanded and as