A New Economic View of American History: From Colonial Times to 1940

Table of contents

• A New Economic View of American History - From Colonial Times to 1940 *
• A New Economic View of American History - From Colonial Times to 1940 *
• Contents v
• Acknowledgments vii
• Preface ix
• Introduction - What's New about the "New View" of American Economic History? xiii
• American Economic Growth: A Long-Run Perspective 1 1
• The Colonial Economy 2 26
• The American Revolution: Some Causes and Consequences 3 54
• Money and Banking before the Civil War 4 81
• Foreign Trade and Commercial Policy in the Development of a New Nation 5 112
• The Transportation Revolution and Domestic Commerce 6 143
• The Beginnings of Industrialization 7 175
• Population Growth and Redistribution 8 212
• Westward Expansion and Public Land Policy 9 249
• Northern Agricultural Development before the Civil War 10 274
• Slavery and Southern Development 11 299
• How the Southern Slave System Worked 12 326
• The Economics of the Civil War 13 355
• The South after the Civil War 14 376
• Northern Agricultural Development after the Civil War 15 402
• Railroads and Nineteenth-Century American Economic Growth and Development 16 427
• The Changing Structure of American Industry 17 457
• Structural Change in America's Financial Markets 18 493
• The Market for Labor in Historical Perspective 19 522
• America Comes of Age: 1914-29 20 554
• The Great Depression: Explaining the Contraction 21 583
• The Great Depression, 1933-39: the Recovery? 22 625
• The Extension of Government Intervention: from the Price of Bread to the Price of Wheat 23 648
• Glossary 683
• Index 695

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