The Growth of the American Economy: An Introduction to the Economic History of the United States

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• The Authors v
• Preface vii
• Contents ix
• Chapter I - Introduction: Nature of Economic History 1
• Chapter 2 - The Early Settlements: a European Investment Of Capital and Labor 19
• Chapter 3 - The Organization of Production During The Colonial Period 44
• Chapter 4 - Colonial Commerce and Commercial Regulation 66
• Chapter 5 - Westward Expansion Before the Homestead Act 82
• Chapter 6 - Agricultural Technology to 1880 113
• Chapter 7 - Agricultural Organization: a Comparative Analysis, 1789-1860 141
• Chapter 8 - Foreign Trade in the Era of Wooden Ships 156
• Chapter 9 - American Transportation Before the War Between the States 172
• Chapter 10 - The Processing of Agricultural Products In the Pre-Railway Age 189
• Chapter II - Heavy Industries Before 1860 210
• Chapter 12 - Light Manufactures and the Beginnings of Precision Manufacture Before 1861 229

• Title Page iii
• The Authors v
• Preface vii
• Contents ix
• Chapter I - Introduction: Nature of Economic History 1
• Chapter 2 - The Early Settlements: a European Investment Of Capital and Labor 19
• Chapter 3 - The Organization of Production During The Colonial Period 44
• Chapter 4 - Colonial Commerce and Commercial Regulation 66
• Chapter 5 - Westward Expansion Before the Homestead Act 82
• Chapter 6 - Agricultural Technology to 1880 113
• Chapter 7 - Agricultural Organization: a Comparative Analysis, 1789-1860 141
• Chapter 8 - Foreign Trade in the Era of Wooden Ships 156
• Chapter 9 - American Transportation Before the War Between the States 172
• Chapter 10 - The Processing of Agricultural Products In the Pre-Railway Age 189
• Chapter II - Heavy Industries Before 1860 210
• Chapter 12 - Light Manufactures and the Beginnings of Precision Manufacture Before 1861 229
• Chapter 13 - Money and Commercial Banking, 1789-1861 250
• Chapter 14 - The Capital Markets, 1789-1860 282
• Chapter 15 - Business Organization and the Development Of an Industrial Discipline 303
• Chapter 16 - The Performance of the American Economy Before 1860 319
• Selected References 341
• Chapter 17 - Westward Expansion Since the Homestead Act 342
• Chapter 18 - The Emergence of Agricultural Regionalism 379
• Chapter 19 - The Great Plains 411
• Chapter 20 - The Processing of Agricultural Products After 1860 432
• Chapter 21 - The Heavy Industries Since 1860 467
• Chapter 22 - Mass Production Since the War Between the States 496
• Chapter 23 - Development of a National System of Transportation 521
• Chapter 24 - Foreign Trade and Commercial Policy Since 1860 554
• Chapter 25 - The Location of Economic Activity 579
• Chapter 26 - The Changing Status of Labor 607
• Chapter 27 - Money and Banking Since 1860 632
• Chapter 28 - The Investment Market After the War Between the States 653
• Chapter 29 - Amedcan Public Finance, 1789-1943 672
• Chapter 30 - Industrial Concentration and Government Anti-Trust Policy 708
• Chapter 31 - Business Organization and Management 730
• Chapter 32 - The Performance of the American Economy Since 1860 751
• Index 783