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Unless otherwise indicated, all Institute books are published and distributed by The University of North Carolina Press. For ordering information, call 1-800-848-6224 or fax 1-800-272-6817. Please note that these books can be only purchased through UNC Press and not through the Institute.

Thomas Doerflinger

Paper ISBN 978-0-8078-4946-0 $39.95

Copyright 1986 by the University of North Carolina Press

An Award-Winning Book

  Herbert Feis Award, American Historical Association (1986)

  Bancroft Prize (1987)

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“A solid, well-written, and brilliantly perceptive study of the economic structure and behavior of the merchant class in Revolutionary Philadelphia.”

“In a masterly study that should serve as a model not only for economic and business historians but also for students of the subtle interplay between economic development, values, change in social structure, and the tensions governing relationships between private and public life, Doerflinger has traced the changing contours of the Philadelphia mercantile community during the American revolutionary era—with penetrating glances both backward and forward in time.”