ISBN: 1539999203 9781539999201

Category: History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)

Page count: 208

Brooks Adams was an American historian and a notable critic of capitalism. Adams, who was the great-grandson of President John Adams and the grandson of President John Quincy Adams, believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in predictable cycles.The Emancipation of Massachusetts provides an excellent history of the history of Massachusetts during the colonial period of 1630 to 1776.