A vigorous spirit of enterprise : merchants and economic development in Revolutionary Philadelphia

The Character of the Merchant Community --
Social Structure and Recruitment --
Merchant Princes and Paupers --
Merchants, Artisans, and Gentlemen --
How to Become a Merchant --
Friends and Churchmen --
The Articulation of the Merchant Community --
Patterns of Commercial Specialization --
The Division between the Dry Goods and Provision Trades --
Suppliers and Distributors --
Mercantile Fortunes --
Enterprise and Adversity --
The Fabric of Adversity --
The Response to Adversity --
The Dynamics of Enterprise: An Overview --
The Revolution --
Reluctant Revolutionaries --
The Economic Outlook, 1760-1775 --
The Logic of Moderation --
Religion and Politics --
Moderation Applied --
The Shock of War --
The Economics of Civil War --
The Four Phases of Commercial Disruption --
The Wartime Experience of the Merchants --
The Loyalists --
The Staff Officers --
The Fortune Builders --
The Immigrants --
The Federalist Reaction --
The Pennsylvania Revolution --
The Counterrevolution in Congress --
The Commercial Context of Constitutional Reform --
The Shaping of a Federalist Consensus --
Merchants and the Federalist Coup --
Merchants and Economic Diversification --
The Entrepreneurial Efflorescence --
Commercial Innovation --
The Bank of North America --
Securities Speculation --
Land Speculation --
Manufacturing --
American Economic Development and the Case of Philadelphia --
Philadelphia and Her Competitors, 1780-1840 --
Planters and Merchants --
The Case of Virginia --
The Commercial World of Revolutionary Philadelphia.