Preface
Part I. The Issues: 1. Late nineteenth-century American development: the issues
2. Counterfactual history
Part II. The Framework: 3. A model of late nineteenth-century American regional growth
4. American economic history rewritten: fact or fiction?
Part III. The Lessons of History: 5. The Great Depression, 1870-96
6. Financial intermediation, capital immobilities, and economic growth
7. Farmers' discontent and agricultural performance: facts, issues and an agenda
8. Elements of agricultural performance: land expansion and productivity growth
9. Transportation and American development during the Gilded Age: 1870-90
10. Exports, world markets and American development
11. Immigration and American growth
Part IV. The Facts of History: Appendix A: parameter estimation
Appendix B: the simulation in detail
Appendix C: data underlying the analysis of American immigration
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
