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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
March 2008
Print publication year:
2000
Online ISBN:
9781139053808
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521553070
Subjects:
American History: General Interest, Economics: General Interest, Area Studies, American Studies, History, Economic History
Series:
Cambridge Economic History of the United States
Collection:
Cambridge Histories - American History
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Book description

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.

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

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