Europe, America, and the Wider World: Volume 2, America and the Wider World: Essays on the Economic History of Western Capitalism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521274791)

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 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 perspective, is especially timely in view of the recent movements toward integration and democratization in the "mother continent."

Author: William N. Parker
ISBN-10: 0521274796
ISBN-13: 9780521274791
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/26/1991
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.02w x 1.10d