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The Colonial Era

Series The Cambridge Economic History of the United
States, Volume 1

Edited by Stanley
L. Engerman and Robert E.
Gallman

Publication Date 1996

Hardback ISBN-13 9780521394420

Hardback ISBN-10 0521394422

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1017/CHOL9780521394420

Overview

In the past several decades there has been a significant increase in our
knowledge of the economic history of the United States. This three-volume
History has been designed to take full account of new knowledge in the subject,
while at the same time offering a comprehensive survey of the history of
economic activity and change in the United States. This first volume surveys the
economic history of British North America, including Canada and the Caribbean,
and of the early United States, from early settlement by Europeans to the end of
the eighteenth century. The book includes chapters on the economic history of
Native Americans (to 1860), and also on the European and African backgrounds to
colonization. Subsequent chapters cover the settlement and growth of the
colonies, including special surveys of the northern colonies, the southern
colonies, and the West Indies (to 1850). Other chapters discuss British
mercantilist policies and the American colonies; and the American Revolution,
the constitution, and economic developments through 1800. Volumes II and III
will cover, respectively, the economic history of the nineteenth century and the
twentieth century.

For more details of the print
book, and how to buy it online, please see The Colonial Era in the Cambridge
University Press online catalogue.

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The
Cambridge Economic History of the United States Vol. 1: The Colonial
Era

Frontmatter

The
History of Native Americans from Before the Arrival of the Europeans and
Africans Until the American Civil War by Neal
Salisbury

The
African Background to American Colonization by John K.
Thornton

The
European Background by E. L.
Jones

The
Settlement and Growth of the Colonies: Population, Labor, and Economic
Development by David
W. Galenson

The
Northern Colonies: Economy and Society, 1600–1775 by Daniel
Vickers

Economic
and Social Development of the South by Russell
R. Menard

Economic
and Social Development of the British West Indies, from Settlement to ca.
1850 by B. W.
Higman

British
Mercantilist Policies and the American Colonies by John J.
McCusker

The
Revolution, the Constitution, and the New Nation by Cathy
Matson

Bibliographical
Essays

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