Now in
its fourth year, the Library Company of Philadelphia's Program in Early
American Economy and Society (PEAES) is dedicated to promoting scholarly
research and publication related to the origins and development of the
early American economy, broadly conceived, in such fields as business,
finance, commerce, manufacturing, labor, political economy, and technology.
PEAES also seeks to link new and existing scholarship on the early American
economy to other programs pursuing complementary goals, and it strives
to reach a broad public audience. A number of the 
Program's
activities continue to grow, including a fellowship program, a monograph
publication series with Johns Hopkins University Press, writing and
editing of volumes of essays by noted scholars, seminars featuring important
scholarship, an annual award for the best journal articles relating
to early American economic history, a regional survey of manuscript
and printed resources in economic history, acquisition of hundreds of
printed materials to augment the Library Company's existing rich collections,
and public programs to extend the Program's resources to as wide an
audience as possible. Each of these activities is kept up to date on
the Program's web pages. Please visit the Library Company's website
and follow the links to PEAES: www.librarycompany.org
Illustrations from top to bottom:
West India Luxury!! (detail). Colored aquatint (London:
William Holland, 1808).
Olaudah Equiano. Engraved frontispiece portrait from
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas
Vassa, The African. Written by Himself (New York: W. Durell,
1791).
Die Einwohner von Boston...18 December 1773
[The Boston Tea Party]. Engraving by Daniel N. Chodowiecki from Mathias
Sprengel, Historisch-genealogischer Calendar (Leipzig: Bey Haude
unde Spener von Berlin, [1783]).
