| Europe, America, and the Wider World: Volume 2, America and the Wider World: Essays on the Economic History of Western Capitalism Contributor(s): Parker, William N. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0511601026 ISBN-13: 9780511601026 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $140.25 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: December 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | World - General - Business & Economics | Free Enterprise & Capitalism |
| Dewey: 330.122 |
| Series: Studies in Economic History and Policy: USA in the Twentieth |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume collects Professor Parker's major writings on American agricultural and industrial history, including some essays not previously published. Taken as a whole, these essays give an account of why and how the United States grew rich in the nineteenth century, as well as a background against which to judge the present position of the economy and its international position. Professor Parker focuses on the nineteenth-century experience of the three regions of the United States--northeast, south and midwest, and shows wherein lay the sources of their wealth and growth into a flourishing nation. A final chapter, looking at European development from an American perspective, is especially timely in view of the recent movements toward integration and democratization in the mother continent. |
