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Author: Douglass Cecil North
Publisher: New York : Norton
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780393003468
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNumerous charts and tables substantiate the author's analysis of the origins and manifestations of economic development of America before the Civil War
Author: Douglas A. Irwin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011-01-15
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 0226384756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPapers of the National Bureau of Economic Research conference held at Dartmouth College on May 8-9, 2009.
Author: Douglass Cecil North
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-22
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781022883888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNorth's study is a comprehensive and scholarly survey of the factors making for economic development in the United States in the period when its economy was building at the greatest rate in its history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Ronald E. Shaw
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-04-23
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0813145821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAll but forgotten except as a part of nostalgic lore, American canals during the first half of the nineteenth century provided a transportation network that was vital to the development of the new nation. They lowered transportation costs, carried a vast grain trade from western farms to eastern ports, delivered Pennsylvania coal to New York, and carried thousands of passengers at what seemed effortless speed. Along their courses sprang up new towns and cities and with them new economic growth. Canals for a Nation brings together in one volume a survey of all the major American canals. Here are accounts of innovative engineering, of near heroic figures who devoted their lives to canals, and of canal projects that triumphed over all the uncertainties of the political process.
Author: David R. Meyer
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2003-05-21
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780801871412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFarms that were on poor soil and distant from markets declined, whereas other farms successfully adjusted production as rural and urban markets expanded and as Midwestern agricultural products flowed eastward after 1840. Rural and urban demand for manufactures in the East supported diverse industrial development and prosperous rural areas and burgeoning cities supplied increasing amounts of capital for investment.
Author: Douglass C. North
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Published: 1988
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stanley L. Engerman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1107009553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines differences in the rates of economic growth in Latin America and mainland North America since the seventeenth century.
Author: Susanna Delfino
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2011-07-29
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0826219187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Southern Society and Its Transformations, a new set of scholars challenge conventional perceptions of the antebellum South as an economically static region compared to the North. Showing that the pre-Civil War South was much more complex than once thought, the essays in this volume examine the economic lives and social realities of three overlooked but important groups of southerners: the working poor, non-slaveholding whites, and middling property holders such as small planters, professionals, and entrepreneurs. The nine essays that comprise Southern Society and Its Transformations explore new territory in the study of the slave-era South, conveying how modernization took shape across the region and exploring the social processes involved in its economic developments. The book is divided into four parts, each analyzing a different facet of white southern life. The first outlines the legal dimensions of race relations, exploring the effects of lynching and the significance of Georgia’s vagrancy laws. Part II presents the advent of the market economy and its effect on agriculture in the South, including the beginning of frontier capitalism. The third section details the rise of a professional middle class in the slave era and the conflicts provoked. The book’s last section deals with the financial aspects of the transformation in the South, including the credit and debt relationships at play and the presence of corporate entrepreneurship. Between the dawn of the nation and the Civil War, constant change was afoot in the American South. Scholarship has only begun to explore these progressions in the past few decades and has given too little consideration to the economic developments with respect to the working-class experience. These essays show that a new generation of scholars is asking fresh questions about the social aspects of the South’s economic transformation. Southern Society and Its Transformations is a complex look at how whole groups of traditionally ignored white southerners in the slave era embraced modernizing economic ideas and actions while accepting a place in their race-based world. This volume will be of interest to students of Southern and U.S. economic and social history.
Author: Douglass Cecil North
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-09-27
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781390885057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860 Richard Beyer, John Bowman, Donald Farness, and Keith Phillips have all provided valuable research assistance in organiz ing the statistics for this study. The development of the export and import price indices was a particularly laborious task, and I am very much in their debt for the painstaking care with which the data were gathered and organized. Finally, Mrs. Ralph B. Ander son and Mrs. Robert O. Beale have toiled over this manuscript to a degree that puts me very much in their debt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Gergely Baics
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2016-08-30
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1400883628
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew York City witnessed unparalleled growth in the first half of the nineteenth century, its population rising from thirty thousand people to nearly a million in a matter of decades. Feeding Gotham looks at how America's first metropolis grappled with the challenge of provisioning its inhabitants. It tells the story of how access to food, once a public good, became a private matter left to free and unregulated markets—and of the profound consequences this had for American living standards and urban development. Taking readers from the early republic to the Civil War, Gergely Baics explores the changing dynamics of urban governance, market forces, and the built environment that defined New Yorkers’ experiences of supplying their households. He paints a vibrant portrait of the public debates that propelled New York from a tightly regulated public market to a free-market system of provisioning, and shows how deregulation had its social costs and benefits. Baics uses cutting-edge GIS mapping techniques to reconstruct New York’s changing food landscapes over half a century, following residents into neighborhood public markets, meat shops, and groceries across the city’s expanding territory. He lays bare how unequal access to adequate and healthy food supplies led to an increasingly differentiated urban environment. A masterful blend of economic, social, and geographic history, Feeding Gotham traces how this highly fragmented geography of food access became a defining and enduring feature of the American city.
