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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Prologue -- Part I Introduction 1600-1815: From Pre-Contact to the Treaty of Vienna -- 1 Beverstad -- Two Late Woodlands Cultures -- Commonalities -- Distinctions -- Early Modern Europe -- Labor and Land -- Transformations -- Dutch Exceptionalism -- Under and Over the Water -- The Business of Geopolitics -- Expensive Labor -- New Netherland -- The Beaver Pelt Market -- Demand -- Supply -- Market Mechanisms: The Economics of Wampum -- Market Structure -- Which Indians' Territories? -- Which Market Centers? -- Which European Merchants? -- The WIC's Search for a Business Model -- The Peopling Problem -- Equilibrium Market Structure -- The Population: Who Came? Who Didn't? Why? -- The Pull: Why the Fur Trade Mattered Most -- The Push -- Demographic Diversity -- The Market for Land or What Did 24 Signify? -- The New Amsterdam Economy at the End of the Dutch Rule -- References -- 2 An Island in the Center of Its Hinterland -- Sugar and the Atlantic Economy -- Economic Takeoff -- The Preconditions -- The Primary and Supplementary Growth Sectors -- Derived Growth Sectors -- The New York Hinterland's Slow Start -- Farmland and Farmers -- To the Manor Borne? -- A Central Place -- How "Central" Was New York City -- The Political Economy of Centrality -- References -- 3 Port and Entrepôt -- The Risks -- Spreading the Risks -- Selecting Ventures and Counterparties: Information Asymmetries and Business Networks -- Public Policy: Helpful vs. Unhelpful, Effective vs. Ineffective -- Geopolitics -- "Mercantilism" -- Monetary Policy Avant la Lettre -- Early Republican Financial Policy -- Colonial Era Public Policy: An Assessment -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Introduction 1815-1924: The Displaced Nineteenth Century -- 4 Catastrophic Agglomeration -- The Centripetal Tip.