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- Title
Annotated listing of new books.
- Abstract
This article focuses on the book "American Economic History," by Jonathan Hughes and Louis P. Cain. This book provides an introduction to American economic history. The current edition has been revised to take into account new research by economic historians. Covers England's overseas empire; American colonial development; America on the eve of the Revolution; American independence; the westward expansion; population and the labor force; law and the rise of classical American capitalism; transportation, internal improvements, and urbanization; agricultural expansion and the conflict of two systems on the land; the debate over slavery; the early industrial sector; the financial system and the international economy; economic effects of the Civil War; railroads and economic development; post-Civil War agriculture; population growth and the Atlantic migration.
- Subjects
UNITED States; AMERICAN Economic History (Book); HUGHES, Jonathan; CAIN, Louis P.; ECONOMIC development; UNITED States economy; ECONOMIC history
- Publication
Journal of Economic Literature, 1998, Vol 36, Issue 2, p1063
- ISSN
0022-0515
- Publication type
Article