Europe, America, and the Wider World
Europe, America, and the Wider World
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collects Professor Parker's major writings on American agricultural and industrial history, including some previously unpublished essays.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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July 1991Paperback
9780521274791
392 pages
229 × 22 × 152 mm
0.57kg
7 b/w illus. 19 tables
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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.
