The Cambridge Economic History of the United States

by Engerman, Stanley L.; Gallman, Robert E.

• ISBN13: 9780521394420
• ISBN10: 0521394422
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-06-01
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	vii
Preface	ix
The History of Native Americans from Before the Arrival of the Europeans and Africans Until the American Civil War	1	(52)
Neal Salisbury
The African Background to American Colonization	53	(42)
John K. Thornton
The European Background	95	(40)
E. L. Jones
The Settlement and Growth of the Colonies: Population, Labor, and Economic Development	135	(74)
David W. Galenson
The Northern Colonies: Economy and Society, 1600-1775	209	(40)
Daniel Vickers
Economic and Social Development of the South	249	(48)
Russell R. Menard
Economic and Social Development of the British West Indies, from Settlement to ca. 1850	297	(40)
B. W. Higman
British Mercantilist Policies and the American Colonies	337	(26)
John J. McCusker
The Revolution, the Constitution, and the New Nation	363	(40)
Cathy Matson
Bibliographical Essays	403	(44)
Index	447