EUROPE AMERICA AND WIDER WORLD - Essays on the Economic History of Western Capitalism

Klappentext These essays give an account of why and how the United States grew rich in the nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung Focusing on the nineteenth-century experience of three US regions! the northeast! south and midwest! these essays trace the agricultural and industrial sources of wealth and growth that accounted for the country's development as a flourishing nation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Dedication; Preface; A note on notes; Part I. America And Europe: A History: 1. American civilisation: the impulse from Europe; Part II. The South In Slavery And In Freedom: 2. The slave plantation in American agriculture; 3. Slavery and southern economic development: an hypothesis and some evidence; 4. Labour productivity in cotton farming: a problem of research; 5. The south in the national economy, 1865-1970; 6. Capitalism: southern style; Part III. Capitalist Dynamics Of The Rural North: 7. Breakthrough to the midwest; 8. Migration and a political culture; 9. The technological bases of a productive agriculture; 10. The true history of the northern farmer; Part IV. The North: Dynamics Of An Industrial Culture: 11. New England: the Puritan progenitor; 12. The industrial civilisation of the midwest Epilogue: Denouement and decline; Part V. American Values In A Capitalist World: 13. Political controls on a national economy; 14. Nationhood in a Common Market; 15. European industrialisation in an American mirror.

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• Authors: William N. Parker, William N. (Yale University Parker, William Nelson Parker, William. N. Parker
• Assisted by: Louis Galambos (Editor), Robert Gallmam (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.1991
• EAN: 9780521254663
• ISBN: 978-0-521-25466-3
• No. of pages: 390
• Series: Developmental and Cell Biology; Studies in Economic History an; Studies in Economic History and Policy: USA in the Twentieth Century
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA