The sinews of American capitalism : an economic history / by Clark C. Spence.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Hill and Wang, 1964.Edition: [1st ed.]Description: xii, 369 pages : includes tables ; 22 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.973
LOC classification:
  • HC 103 .S697 1964
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Contents:
I. The colonial economy -- II. A new nation -- III. New patterns of trade and commerce -- IV. The westward movement -- V, The agricultural revolution -- VI. The transportation revolution -- VII. Money and banking to the civil war -- VIII. Industrial change in an agrarian economy -- IX. The early labor movement -- X. A transitional war -- XI. The railroad era -- XII. The last frontier -- XIII. Agriculture in an industrializing society -- XIV. The growth of industrial capitalism -- XV. Labor in an industrializing society -- XVI. Shifting patterns of trade and commerce -- XVII. Money and banking in an industrializing economy -- XVIII. Economic imperialism and World War I -- XIX. The great illusion -- XX. The great depression -- XXI. The new deal years -- XXII. World War II -- XXIII. The postwar years
Summary: " 'The object of this volume,' the author states in his opening chapter, 'is to describe the development of the American economy, its causes and consequences, and to explain in some measure the emergence of a nation in which roughly six percent of the world's population produces some forty per cent of the world's goods and services' " -- from dust jacket
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BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks The Roscoe Proctor Collection HC 103 .S697 1964 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan NPML19090039

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-357) and index.

I. The colonial economy -- II. A new nation -- III. New patterns of trade and commerce -- IV. The westward movement -- V, The agricultural revolution -- VI. The transportation revolution -- VII. Money and banking to the civil war -- VIII. Industrial change in an agrarian economy -- IX. The early labor movement -- X. A transitional war -- XI. The railroad era -- XII. The last frontier -- XIII. Agriculture in an industrializing society -- XIV. The growth of industrial capitalism -- XV. Labor in an industrializing society -- XVI. Shifting patterns of trade and commerce -- XVII. Money and banking in an industrializing economy -- XVIII. Economic imperialism and World War I -- XIX. The great illusion -- XX. The great depression -- XXI. The new deal years -- XXII. World War II -- XXIII. The postwar years

" 'The object of this volume,' the author states in his opening chapter, 'is to describe the development of the American economy, its causes and consequences, and to explain in some measure the emergence of a nation in which roughly six percent of the world's population produces some forty per cent of the world's goods and services' " -- from dust jacket

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