Europe, America, and the Wider World: Volume 2, America and the Wider World: Essays on the Economic History of Western Capitalism

by William Nelson Parker

Book Overview

This volume collects Professor Parker's major writings on American agricultural and industrial history, including some essays not previously published. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521274796
• ISBN13: 9780521274791
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"