The Cambridge Economic History of the United States

Volume II surveys the economic history of the United States, Canada and the Caribbean during the nineteenth century.

Stanley L. Engerman (Edited by), Robert E. Gallman (Edited by)

9780521553070, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 August 2000

1008 pages, 36 b/w illus. 4 maps 113 tables
23.6 x 16.4 x 5.9 cm, 1.535 kg

"Undergraduate and graduate students can find in them precise analyses and welcome syntheses." The Journal of American History Dec 2001

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.

1. Economic growth and structural change in the long nineteenth century Robert E. Gallman
2. The economy of Canada in the nineteenth century Marvin McInnis
3. Inequality in the nineteenth century Clayne Pope
4. The population of the United States, 1790–1920 Michael R. Haines
5. The labor force in the nineteenth century Robert A. Margo
6. The farm, the farmer, and the market Jeremy Atack, Fred Bateman and William N. Parker
7. Northern agriculture and the westward movement Jeremy Atack, Fred Bateman and William N. Parker
8. Slavery and its consequences for the South in the nineteenth century Stanley L. Engerman
9. Technology and industrialization, 1790–1914 Kenneth L. Sokoloff and Stanley L. Engerman
10. Entrepreneurship, business organization, and economic concentration Naomi R. Lamoreaux
11. Business law and American economic history Tony Freyer
12. Experimental federalism: the economics of American government 1789–1914 Richard Sylla
13. Internal transportation in the nineteenth century Albert Fishlow
14. Banking and finance, 1789–1914 Hugh Rockoff
15. US foreign trade and the balance of payments, 1800–1913 Robert E. Lipsey
16. International capital movements, domestic capital markets, and American economic growth, 1820–1914 Lance E. Davis and Robert J. Cull
17. The social implications of American economic development Stuart Blumin.

Subject Areas: Economic history [KCZ], Economics, finance, business & management [K], Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [HBLL], History of the Americas [HBJK]