Europe, America, and the Wider World: Volume 2, America and the Wider World

Europe, America, and the Wider World: Volume 2, America and the Wider WorldEssays on the Economic History of Western Capitalism\nAuthor(s): William N. Parker\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521254663, 978-0521254663\nSynopsis\nThis volume collects Professor Parker's major writings on American agricultural and industrial history, including some previously unpublished essays. 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 perspec.