Download or read book Dangerous Economies written by Serena Zabin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of New York culture and commerce in the first two thirds of the eighteenth century tells how the volatile forces of imperial politics and commerce created a fluid society in which establishing one's own status or verifying another's was a challenge.