Essay Instructions: Hello,
You can select a topic for the term paper from the following list:
1.the colonial merchant ;
2. the economy of the colonial america;
3. mercantilist theory.
Requirements for the term paper:
? Please submit: (a) note cards, (b) an outline of the term paper on the topic, (c) a bibliography or reference list in proper bibliographical or reference-list form.
? submit at least 50 note cards (indicating on the note cards:quoted sentences, the author and the sources) taken from at least 10 distinct sources.you can actually put the content of the note card on a whole page of paper instead of card. Each note card must contain a clear reference to the page or pages of the book or article used as the source of the material on the card.
? The outline must be a clear indication of the form which the term paper would take. It must indicate a clear theme and intelligent coverage and development of that theme.
? The bibliography or reference list must include at least the 10 sources used in the note cards and may include more.
The term paper must be in the following format:
o Its form and style must follow the style of ?manual Kate Turabian?, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 6th ed. The most comprehensive guide is the University of Chicago Press, The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th ed. For documenting electronic information, use Citing Electronic Information in History Papers.
o It must contain a bibliography or reference list of materials used. Items in the bibliography or reference list must follow standard scholarly form.
o It must have notes to acknowledge your use of sources, whether paraphrased or quoted directly. The notes must follow standard scholarly form. If you use a bibliography rather than a reference list, the notes may be placed at the bottom of each page or separately at the end of the paper, just before the bibliography.
o It must be original work.
The Use of Sources*
Generally, if writes while looking at a source or while looking at notes taken from a source, a footnote should be given.
Information may be put into a paper without a footnote or some kind of documentation only if it meets all of the following conditions:
? It may be found in several books on the subject.
? It is written entirely in the words of the student.
? It is not paraphrased from any particular source.
? It therefore belongs to common knowledge.
Whenever any idea is taken from a specific source, even when you write the idea entirely in your own words, there must be a footnote giving credit to the author responsible for the idea. Of course methods of documentation vary and it is possible to cite in the text itself rather than in a footnote. The point is that the student should give credit when credit is due and should give the credit in a manner specified by the instructor.
The student is entirely responsible for knowing and following the principles of paraphrasing. paraphrasing means alteration of sentence pattern and changing the words.
Any direct quotation should be footnoted (or documented in an acceptable fashion). Even when you use only one unusual or key word from a passage, that word should be quoted. If a brief phrase that is common or somewhat common is used as it occurs in the source, the words should be in quotation marks. The source of every quotation should be given in a footnote or in the prescribed manner.
Note About Research Materials
Research materials can be compiled from many sources. The Select Bibliography:
Economic Activity in colonial America
? Albion, R. G. Forests and Sea Power: The Timber Problem of the Royal Navy
? Bailyn, Bernard. The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century
? Bailyn, Bernard and Lotte Bailyn. Massachusetts Shipping, 1697-1714: A Statistical Study
? Baxter, William T. The House of Hancock: Business in Boston, 1724-1776
? Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
? Bidwell, Percy W., and John I. Falconer. History of Agriculture in the Northern United States, 1620-1860
? Bining, A. C. British Regulation of the Colonial Iron Industry
? Bruce, Philip A. Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century (2 vols.)
? ________. Institutional History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century (2 vols.)
? Carman, Harry, ed. American Husbandry
? Clark, Victor S. History of Manufactures in the United States, vol. 1
? Curtin, Philip. The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census
? East, Robert A. Business Enterprise in the American Revolutionary Era
? Ernst, J. A. Money and Politics in America, 1755-1776
? Fairchild, Byron. Messrs. William Pepperrell: Merchants at Piscataqua
? Galenson, David. White Servitude in Colonial America: An Economic Analysis
? Gray, Lewis C. History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860, vol. 1
? Harrington, Virginia D. The New York Merchants on the Eve of the Revolution
? Inness, Stephen, ed. Work and Labor in Early America
? Hedges, James B. The Browns of Providence Plantations, vol. 1
? Jensen, Arthur L. The Maritime Commerce of Colonial Philadelphia
? Johnson, Edgar A. J. American Economic Thought in the Seventeenth Century
? Johnson, Emory R., and others. History of Domestic and Foreign Commerce of the United States, vol. 1
? Jones, Alice Hanson. Wealth of a Nation To Be: The American Colonies on the Eve of the Revolution
? McCusker, John J. and Russell R. Menard. The Economy of British America, 1607-1789
? Middleton, Arthur P. Tobacco Coast: A Maritime History of Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era
? Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
? Morris, Richard B. Government and Labor in Early America
? Pares, Richard. Yankees and Creoles: The Trade Between North America and the West Indies Before the American Revolution
? Pope-Hennessy, James. Sins of the Fathers: A Study of the Atlantic Slave Traders, 1441-1807
? Rutman, Darrett B. Husbandmen of Plymouth: Farms and Villages in the Old Colony, 1620-1692
? Sachs, William S., and Ari Hoogenboom. The Enterprising Colonials: Society on the Eve of the Revolution
? Schlesinger, Arthur M. Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution
? Sellers, Leila. Charleston Business on the Eve of the American Revolution
? Shepherd, James F., and Gary F. Walton. Shipping, Maritime Trade, and the Economic Development of Colonial North America
? Smith, Abbott E. Colonists in Bondage: White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776
? Tolles, Frederick B. Meeting House and Counting House: The Quaker Merchants of Colonial Philadelphia, 1682-1763
? Tryon, R. M. Household Manufactures in the United States, 1640-1860
? Ver Steeg, Clarence L. Robert Morris: Revolutionary Financier
? Weeden, W. B. Economic and Social History of New England, 1620-1789 (2 vols.)
? White, Philip L. The Beekmans of New York in Politics and Commerce, 1647-1877
Thanks,
Lily