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Ireland, America, and Mathew Carey Front Matter Source: Early American Studies, Vol. 11, No. 3, Special Issue: Ireland, America, and Mathew Carey (Fall 2013) Published by: University of Pennsylvania Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23547676 Accessed: 30-08-2018 10:29 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. 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Bric "A Reciprocity of Advantages": Carey, Hamilton, and the American Protective Doctrine Stephen Meardon Mathew Carey's Learning Experience: Commerce, Manufacturing, and the Panic of 1819 Cathy Matson The Statistical Turn in Early American Political Economy: Mathew Carey and the Authority of Numbers Martin Ohman Trans-Atlantic Migration and the Printing Trade in Revolutionary America Joseph M. Adelman "I was always dispos'd to be serviceable to you, tho' it seems I was once unlucky": Mathew Carey's Relationship with Benjamin Franklin James N. Green Furious Booksellers: The "American Copy" of the Waverley Novels and the Language of the Book Trade Joseph Rezek Afterword: Why Should We Listen to Mathew Carey? Martin J. 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