Transport Improvement And Economic Growth In The West 1840 1860
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| Author | : David R. Meyer |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 2003-05-21 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780801871412 |
Farms that were on poor soil and distant from markets declined, whereas other farms successfully adjusted production as rural and urban markets expanded and as Midwestern agricultural products flowed eastward after 1840. Rural and urban demand for manufactures in the East supported diverse industrial development and prosperous rural areas and burgeoning cities supplied increasing amounts of capital for investment.
| Author | : Robert William Fogel |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1964 |
| Genre | : Railroads |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Robert E. Gallman |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 2007-12-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0226279472 |
This benchmark volume addresses the debate over the effects of early industrialization on standards of living during the decades before the Civil War. Its contributors demonstrate that the aggregate antebellum economy was growing faster than any other large economy had grown before. Despite the dramatic economic growth and rise in income levels, questions remain as to the general quality of life during this era. Was the improvement in income widely shared? How did economic growth affect the nature of work? Did higher levels of income lead to improved health and longevity? The authors address these questions by analyzing new estimates of labor force participation, real wages, and productivity, as well as of the distribution of income, height, and nutrition.
| Author | : Charles Sellers |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 511 |
| Release | : 1994-05-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199762422 |
In The Market Revolution, one of America's most distinguished historians offers a major reinterpretation of a pivotal moment in United States history. Based on impeccable scholarship and written with grace and style, this volume provides a sweeping political and social history of the entire period from the diplomacy of John Quincy Adams to the birth of Mormonism under Joseph Smith, from Jackson's slaughter of the Indians in Georgia and Florida to the Depression of 1819, and from the growth of women's rights to the spread of the temperance movement. Equally important, he offers a provocative new way of looking at this crucial period, showing how the boom that followed the War of 1812 ignited a generational conflict over the republic's destiny, a struggle that changed America dramatically. Sellers stresses throughout that democracy was born in tension with capitalism, not as its natural political expression, and he shows how the massive national resistance to commercial interests ultimately rallied around Andrew Jackson. An unusually comprehensive blend of social, economic, political, religious, and cultural history, this accessible work provides a challenging analysis of this period, with important implications for the study of American history as a whole. It will revolutionize thinking about Jacksonian America.
| Author | : Joseph L. Locke |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 670 |
| Release | : 2019-01-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1503608131 |
"I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to create the book they wanted for their own students—an accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the best of recent historical scholarship and provides a jumping-off point for discussions in the U.S. history classroom and beyond. Long before Whitman and long after, Americans have sung something collectively amid the deafening roar of their many individual voices. The Yawp highlights the dynamism and conflict inherent in the history of the United States, while also looking for the common threads that help us make sense of the past. Without losing sight of politics and power, The American Yawp incorporates transnational perspectives, integrates diverse voices, recovers narratives of resistance, and explores the complex process of cultural creation. It looks for America in crowded slave cabins, bustling markets, congested tenements, and marbled halls. It navigates between maternity wards, prisons, streets, bars, and boardrooms. The fully peer-reviewed edition of The American Yawp will be available in two print volumes designed for the U.S. history survey. Volume I begins with the indigenous people who called the Americas home before chronicling the collision of Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans.The American Yawp traces the development of colonial society in the context of the larger Atlantic World and investigates the origins and ruptures of slavery, the American Revolution, and the new nation's development and rebirth through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Rather than asserting a fixed narrative of American progress, The American Yawp gives students a starting point for asking their own questions about how the past informs the problems and opportunities that we confront today.
| Author | : Albert Fishlow |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 482 |
| Release | : 1966 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
Awarded the David A. Wells Prize 1963-64.
| Author | : Richard Swainson Fisher |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 1851 |
| Genre | : Railroads |
| ISBN | : |
Containing correct tables, for time of starting from of all stations, distances, fares, etc. on all the railway lines in the United States; together with a complete railway map, also many principal steamboat and stage lines running in connection with railroads.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 584 |
| Release | : 1899 |
| Genre | : Railroad travel |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Ingrid E. Rothe |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Dan Allosso |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2017-12-14 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781981731732 |
An expanded, new and improved American Environmental History textbook for everyone! After years of teaching Environmental History at a major East Coast University without a textbook, Dr. Dan Allosso decided to take matters into his own hands. The result, American Environmental History, is a concise, comprehensive survey covering the material from Dan's undergraduate course. What do people say about the class and the text? "This was my first semester and this course has created an incredible first impression. If all of the courses are this good, I am going to really enjoy my time here. The course has completely changed the way I look at the world." (Student in 2014 class) "One of the few classes I'm really sad is ending, the subject matter is fascinating and Dan is a great guide to it. His approach should be required of all students as it teaches an appreciation for a newer and better way of living." (Student in 2014 class) "Allosso's lectures are fantastic. The best I have ever had. So impressed. The material is always extremely interesting and well-presented." (Student in 2015 class) "It is just a perfect course that I think should be mandatory if we want to save our planet and live responsibly." (Student in 2015 class) "A rare gem for an IB ESS teacher or any social studies teacher looking for an 11th or 12th grade supplementary text that aims to provide an historical context for the environmental reality in America today. Highly recommended." (District Curriculum Coordinator, 2016) "I was so impressed with this material that I am using it as a supplement for a course I teach at my college." (History and Environmental Studies Professor, 2017) Beginning in prehistory and concluding in the present, American Environmental History explores the ways the environment has affected the choices that became our history, and how our choices have affected the environment. The dynamic relationship between people and the world around them is missing from mainstream history. Putting the environment back into history helps us make sense of the past and the present, which will help guide us toward a better future. More information and Dan's blog are available at environmentalhistory.us
