The History of Foreign Investment in the United States to 1914

by Mira Wilkins

From the colonial era to 1914, America was a debtor nation in international accounts--owing more to foreigners than foreigners owed to us. By 1914 it was the world's largest debtor nation. Mira Wilkins provides the first complete history of foreign investment in the United States during that period. The book shows why the United States was attractive to foreign investors and traces the changing role of foreign capital in the nation's development,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674396669
• ISBN13: 9780674396661
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 992 Pages
• Weight: 3.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"