American Economic History

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Author(s):	Hughes, Jonathan
ISBN No.:	9780321011435
Pages:	624
Year:	199708
Format:	Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price:	$ 122.98
Status:	Out Of Print

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I. THE COLONIAL PERIOD, 1607-1783. 1. Overseas Empire. 2. Colonial Development. 3. America on the Eve of Revolution.

4. Gaining Independence. II. THE NATIONAL PERIOD AND CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS, 1783-1861. 5. Westward Expansion. 6. Population and Labor Force.

7. Law and the Rise of Classical American Capitalism. 8. Transportation, Internal Improvements, and Urbanization. 9. Agricultural Expansion: The Conflict of Two Systems on the Land. 10. The Debate Over Slavery.

11. The Early Industrial Sector. 12. The Financial System and the International Economy. III. THE RISE OF AN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY, 1861-1914. 13. Economic Effects of the Civil War.

14. Railroads and Economic Development. 15. Post-Civil War Agriculture. 16. Population Growth and the Atlantic Migration. 17. Industrialization and Urban Growth.

18. Big Business and Government Intervention. 19. Financial Developments, 1863-1919. 20. The Giant Economy and Its International Relations. 21. Labor and the Law.

IV. THE EXPANSION OF FEDERAL POWER, 1914-1945. 22. The Command Economy Emerges: World War I. 23. "Normalcy" : 1919-1929. 24. The Great Depression.

25. The New Deal. 26. The "Prosperity" of Wartime. V. BRAVE NEW WORLD: 1945-PRESENT. 27. From World War II to the New Frontier.

28. Labor and the Tertiary Sector. 29. Industrial Developments. 30. From the New Frontier to Reaganomics and Beyond: 1960-1995. 31. Does Our Past Have a Future?.

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