"The first edition of The Value of a Dollar, 1600-1865 paralells its older brother The Value of a Dollar, 1860-2004.  Starting with the founding of America and extending through the Colonial Era to the Civil War, this volume of The Value of a Dollar focuses on what things cost and how much workers made. Its coverage is diverse, including the cost of everything from clothing to cows, from treatment of a snake bite to nervousness, from the passage of a young female slave to a clothing trunk. Efforts have been made to include nearly every item necessary for everyday life so students, historians, and the simply curious can explore the wage and price structure of early America."

REF HF 5681 .B2 R6 2005/06

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