The Foundations of the American Economy Vol 4: The American Colonies from Inception to Independence

Edited by Marianne Johnson, Steven G. Medema, Warren J. Samuels

VOLUME IV Mercantilism and Colonialism, Part 1: Edward Rawson, The revolution on New England Justified (1691), John Locke, The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1698), Robert Beverly, An Essay upon the Government of the English Plantations on the Continent of America (1701), John Rutherford, The Importance of the Colonies to Great Britain (1761), Thomas Fitch, Reasons why the British Colonies in America should not be charged with Internal Taxes (1764), Arthur Lee, An Essay in vindication of Continental Colonies of America (1764), John Dickinson, The Late Regulations Respecting the British Colonies on the Continent of America Considered (1765), John Dickinson, excerpts from Letters from a farmer on Pennsylvania (1768)

This collection brings together a comprehensive selection of documents from the history of US and Canadian economic thought from the seventeenth century through to 1900