Dangerous Economies Status and Commerce in Imperial New York - Zabin, Serena R. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009)
Biographical note: Serena R. Zabin is Associate Professor of History at Carleton College
Main description: This history of New York culture and commerce in the first two thirds of the eighteenth century tells how the volatile forces of imperial politics and commerce created a fluid society in which establishing one's own status or verifying another's was a challenge