
Europe, America, and the Wider World
Essays on the Economic History of Western Capitalism
Volume 2. America and the Wider World
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Part of Studies in Economic History and Policy: USA in the Twentieth Century
- Author: William N. Parker, Yale University, Connecticut
- Date Published: July 1991
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521274791
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This volume collects Professor Parker's major writings on American agricultural and industrial history, including some previously unpublished essays. Taken as a whole, these essays give an account of why and how the United States grew rich in the nineteenth century, as well as a background against which to judge the present position of the economy and its international position. Professor Parker focuses on the nineteenth-century experience of the three regions of the United States - northeast, south and midwest, and shows wherein lay the sources of their wealth and growth into a flourishing nation. A final chapter, looking at European development from an American perspective, is especially timely in view of the recent movements toward integration and democratisation in the 'mother continent'.
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- Date Published: July 1991
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521274791
- length: 392 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 22 x 152 mm
- weight: 0.57kg
- contains: 7 b/w illus. 19 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Preface
A note on notes
Part I. America And Europe: A History:
1. American civilisation: the impulse from Europe
Part II. The South In Slavery And In Freedom:
2. The slave plantation in American agriculture
3. Slavery and southern economic development: an hypothesis and some evidence
4. Labour productivity in cotton farming: a problem of research
5. The south in the national economy, 1865–1970
6. Capitalism: southern style
Part III. Capitalist Dynamics Of The Rural North:
7. Breakthrough to the midwest
8. Migration and a political culture
9. The technological bases of a productive agriculture
10. The true history of the northern farmer
Part IV. The North: Dynamics Of An Industrial Culture:
11. New England: the Puritan progenitor
12. The industrial civilisation of the midwest Epilogue: Denouement and decline
Part V. American Values In A Capitalist World:
13. Political controls on a national economy
14. Nationhood in a Common Market
15. European industrialisation in an American mirror.
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