Francis G. Walett

Economic History of the United States

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2005. This volume offers a summary of all phases of economic growth in the USA. It is based upon the contents of the standard college textbooks in American economic history. It presents in succinct form and in the most common organization the essential facts about the economic development of the American people.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9781138865303
• ISBN-10: 1138865303
• Artikelnr.: 42833486

Autorenporträt

Francis G. Walett received the degrees of Master of Arts (1944) and Doctor of Philosophy (1948) from Boston University, where he is now Assistant Professor of H story. He has tau g h t courses in European History, American H story, and the Economic H story of the United States. Much of his research and writing has been in the field of the American R evolution.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Physical Basis of United States Economic History 2. The European
Background of American Economic History 3. The Colonization of North
America 4. Production in Colonial America 5. Colonial Commerce 6. Economic
Aspects of the Revolutionary Period 7. Public Finance and Fiscal Policy
1789 to 1860 8. Agriculture before 1860 9. Population and Labor before the
Civil War 10. Transportation Developments before the Civil War 11. Westward
Expansion before the Civil War 12. Beginnings of American Industrialism 13.
Foreign Trade and Maritime Industries 1789-1860 14. Money and Banking
1789-1860 15. Performance of the American Economy 1789-1860 16. Economic
Aspects of the Civil War 17. Passing of the Frontier 18. Changing
Agriculture 1860-1914 19. History of Transportation and Communication to
1914 20. The Industrial Revolution 21. Industrial Consolidation and the
Antitrust Movement 22. The Labor Movement 1860-1914 23. Domestic and
Foreign Commerce 24. Financial History 1865-1914 25. The Performance of the
American Economy 1865-1914 26. Economic Imperialism 27. World War I and the
American Economy 28. The Prosperous Twenties 29. The Great Depression 30.
The New Deal 31. America and World Economies 32. Economic Problems of World
War II and Postwar Developments Final Examination