The Cambridge economic history of the United States. Volume 2, The long nineteenth century / edited by Stanley L. Engerman, Robert E. Gallman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Engerman, Stanley L., editor.

Gallman, Robert E., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Economic conditions--19th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 1021 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Summary:

Volume II surveys the economic history of the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean during the nineteenth century, a period of massive international and intercontinental movements of labor, capital, and commodities. The United States and Canada began the period as small but vigorous societies; the United States ended the period as the world's premier economic power. Five main themes frame the economic changes described in the volume: the migration of labor and capital from Europe, Asia, and Africa to the Americas; westward expansion; slavery and its aftermath; the process of industrialization; and the social consequences of economic growth that led to fundamental changes in the role of government. Other topics include: inequality, population, labor, agriculture, entrepreneurship, transportation, banking and finance, business law, and international trade.

Contents:

Economic Growth and Structural Change in the Long Nineteenth Century / Robert E. Gallman

The Economy of Canada in the Nineteenth Century / Marvin McInnis

Inequality in the Nineteenth Century / Clayne Pope

The Population of the United States, 1790-1920 / Michael R. Haines

The Labor Force in the Nineteenth Century / Robert A. Margo

The Farm, The Farmer, and The Market / Jeremy Atack, Fred Bateman and William N. Parker

Northern Agriculture and the Westward Movement / Jeremy Atack, Fred Bateman and William N. Parker

Slavery and its Consequences for the South in the Nineteenth Century / Stanley L. Engerman

Technology and Industrialization, 1790-1914 / Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Entrepreneurship, Business Organization, and Economic Concentration / Naomi R. Lamoreaux

Business Law and American Economic History / Tony A. Freyer

Experimental Federalism: the Economics of American Government, 1789-1914 / Richard Sylla

Internal Transportation in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Albert Fishlow

Banking and Finance, 1789-1914 / Hugh Rockoff

U.S. Foreign Trade and the Balance of Payments, 1800-1913 / Robert E. Lipsey

International Capital Movements, Domestic Capital Markets, and American Economic Growth, 1820-1914 / Lance E. Davis and Robert J. Cull

The Social Implications of U.S. Economic Development / Stuart M. Blumin.

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ISBN:

9781139053808 (ebook)

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