| Description |
xxi, 714 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
18. Structural Change in America's Financial Markets -- 19. The Market for Labor in Historical Perspective -- 20. America Comes of Age: 1914-29 -- 21. The Great Depression: Explaining the Contraction -- 22. The Great Depression, 1933-39: The Recovery? -- 23. The Development of Government Intervention: From the Price of Bread to the Price of Wheat |
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Introduction: What's New about the "New View" of American Economic History -- 1. American Economic Growth: A Long-Run Perspective -- 2. The Colonial Economy -- 3. The American Revolution: Some Causes and Consequences -- 4. Money and Banking before the Civil War -- 5. Foreign Trade and Commercial Policy in the Development of a New Nation -- 6. The Transportation Revolution and Domestic Commerce -- 7. The Beginnings of Industrialization -- 8. Population Growth and Redistribution -- 9. Westward Expansion and Public Land Policy -- 10. Northern Agricultural Development before the Civil War -- 11. Slavery and Southern Development -- 12. How the Southern Slave System Worked -- 13. The Economics of the Civil War -- 14. The South after the Civil War -- 15. Northern Agricultural Development after the Civil War -- 16. Railroads and Nineteenth-Century American Economic Growth and Development -- 17. The Changing Structure of American Industry |
| Analysis |
Economic conditions History |
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United States |
| Notes |
Rev. ed. of: A new economic view of American history / Susan Previant Lee and Peter Passell. 1st ed. c1979 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Economic development -- United States.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140020
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| Author |
Lee, Susan, 1943-
New economic view of American history
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Passell, Peter.
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| LC no. |
93029990 |
| ISBN |
0393963152 |
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