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The Long Nineteenth Century

Series The Cambridge Economic History of the United
States, Volume 2

Edited by Stanley
L. Engerman and Robert E.
Gallman

Publication Date 2000

Hardback ISBN-10 0521553075

Hardback ISBN-13 9780521553070

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1017/CHOL9780521553070

Overview

Volume II surveys the economic history of the United States, Canada, and the
Caribbean during the nineteenth century, a period of massive international and
intercontinental movements of labor, capital, and commodities. The United States
and Canada began the period as small but vigorous societies; the United States
ended the period as the world's premier economic power. Five main themes frame
the economic changes described in the volume: the migration of labor and capital
from Europe, Asia, and Africa to the Americas; westward expansion; slavery and
its aftermath; the process of industrialization; and the social consequences of
economic growth that led to fundamental changes in the role of government. Other
topics include: inequality, population, labor, agriculture, entrepreneurship,
transportation, banking and finance, business law, and international
trade.

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

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Table of Contents

The
Cambridge Economic History of the United States Vol. 2: The Long Nineteenth
Century

Frontmatter

Economic
Growth and Structural Change in the Long Nineteenth Century by
Robert
E. Gallman

The
Economy of Canada in the Nineteenth Century by Marvin
McInnis

Inequality
in the Nineteenth Century by Clayne
Pope

The
Population of the United States, 1790–1920 by Michael
R. Haines

The
Labor Force in the Nineteenth Century by Robert A.
Margo

The
Farm, The Farmer, and The Market by Jeremy
Atack, Fred
Bateman and William
N. Parker

Northern
Agriculture and the Westward Movement by Jeremy
Atack, Fred
Bateman and William
N. Parker

Slavery
and its Consequences for the South in the Nineteenth Century by
Stanley
L. Engerman

Technology
and Industrialization, 1790–1914 by Stanley
L. Engerman and Kenneth
L. Sokoloff

Entrepreneurship,
Business Organization, and Economic Concentration by Naomi
R. Lamoreaux

Business
Law and American Economic History by Tony A.
Freyer

Experimental
Federalism: the Economics of American Government, 1789–1914 by
Richard
Sylla

Internal
Transportation in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
by Albert
Fishlow

Banking
and Finance, 1789–1914 by Hugh
Rockoff

U.S.
Foreign Trade and the Balance of Payments, 1800–1913 by
Robert
E. Lipsey

International
Capital Movements, Domestic Capital Markets, and American Economic Growth,
1820–1914 by Lance E.
Davis and Robert J.
Cull

The
Social Implications of U.S. Economic Development by Stuart
M. Blumin

Bibliographic
Essays

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