First Published in 2005. This volume offers a summary of all phases of economic growth in the USA. It is based upon the contents of the standard college textbooks in American economic history. It presents in succinct form and in the most common organization the essential facts about the economic development of the American people.
1. The physical basis of United States Economic History
2. The European Background of American Economic History
3. The Colonization of North America
4. Production in Colonial America
5. Colonial commerce
6. Economic aspects of the revolutionary period
7. Public finance and Fiscal policy, 1789 to 1860
8. Agriculture before 1860
9. Population and labor before the Civil War
10. Transportation developments before the Civil war
11. Westward expansion before the Civil war
12. Beginnings of American industrialism
13. Foreign trade and maritime industries, 1789-1860
14. Money and Banking, 1789-1860
15. Performance of the American Economy, 1789-1860
16. Economic aspects of the Civil war
17. Passing of the frontier
18. Changing agriculture, 1860-1914
19. History of transportation and Communication to 1914
20. The Industrial Revolution
21. Industrial consolidation and the Antitrust Movement
22. The Labor Movement, 1860-1914
23. Domestic and foreign commerce
24. Financial history, 1865-1914
25. The performance of the American Economy, 1865-1914
26. Economic Imperialism
27. World War I and the American Economy
28. The Prosperous Twenties
29. The Great Depression
30. The New Deal
31. America and world economies
32. Economic problems of World War II and Postwar developments
Final Examination
Biography
Francis G. Walett received the degrees of Master of Arts (1944) and Doctor of Philosophy (1948) from Boston University, where he is now Assistant Professor of H story. He has tau g h t courses in European History, American H story, and the Economic H story of the United States. Much of his research and writing has been in the field of the American R evolution.
