Mansel G. Blackford and K. Austin Kerr (1994).
Business Enterprise in American History (Boston, MA:
Houghton Mifflin, [3rd ed.]). Corporations--United
States--History; Business enterprises--United States--History.
Stuart W. Bruchey (1968).
The Roots of American Economic Growth, 1607-1861; an Essay in
Social Causation (New York, NY: Harper & Row, 234 p.).
United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.
Richard Buel, Jr. (1998).
In Irons: Britain's Naval Supremacy and the American
Revolutionary Economy. (New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press, 397 p.). Professor Emeritus of History (Wesleyan
University). Great Britain. Royal Navy--History--Revolution,
1775-1783; Agriculture--Economic aspects--United
States--History--18th century; United
States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance; United
States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Naval operations,
British; United States--Commerce--History--18th century.
Thomas Carson, editor; Mary Bonk, associate
editor (1999).
Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History (Detroit, MI:
Gale Group, 2 vols.). United States--Economic
conditions--Encyclopedias.
Thomas C. Cochran (1972).
New York in the Confederation; an Economic Study
(Clifton, NJ: A.M. Kelley, 220 p. United States. Continental
Congress; New York (State)--Politics and government--1775-1783;
New York (State)--Economic conditions; United
States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance; United
States--Politics and government--1783-1789.
--- (1981).
Frontiers of Change: Early Industrialism in America.
(New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 179 p.).
Industries--United States--History; Technological
innovations--United States--History; United States--Economic
conditions--To 1865; United States--Social conditions--To 1865.
New view of the Industrial Revolution in America.
Industrialization as culturally
inspired change.
eds. Thomas C. Cochran [and] Thomas B. Brewer
(1966).
Views of American Economic Growth:
The Agricultural Era (Volume One).
(New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2 vols.). United States--Economic
conditions--Addresses, essays, lectures.
Peter A. Coclanis (1989).
The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South
Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920 (New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 370 p.). Charleston Region (S.C.)--Economic
conditions.
John E. Crowley (1993).
The Privileges of Independence: Neomercantilism and the American
Revolution. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 215 p.). Mercantile system--United States--History--18th
century; Mercantile system--Great Britain--History--18th
century; United States--Politics and government--1775-1783;
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects;
Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--18th century; Great
Britain--Colonies--Commerce--History--18th century; Great
Britain--Colonies--America--Commerce; United
States--Commerce--Great Britain; Great Britain--Commerce--United
States; United States--Commerce--History--18th century.
Robert Abraham East (1938).
Business Enterprise in the American Revolutionary Era.
(New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 387 p.). United
States--Economic conditions; United States--Commerce--History;
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
ed. Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman
(1986).
Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth (Chicago,
IL: University of Chicago Press, 884 p.). North
America--Economic conditions; United States--Economic
conditions. Studies in income and wealth.
--- (1996).
The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, vol. 1, The
Colonial Era. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press,
500 p.). United States--Economic conditions.
--- (2000).
The Cambridge Economic History of the United
States
(New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1200 p.). United
States--Economic conditions v. 1. The Colonial era.
Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman
(1974).
Time on the Cross; The Economics of American Negro Slavery.
(New York, NY: Norton, 304 p. [orig. pub. 1974]). Charles R.
Walgreen Professor of American Institutions, Director for the
Center for Population Economics (University of Chicago) and
Winner - Nobel Prize for Economics in 1993; Professor of
Economics and History (University of Rochester).
Slavery--Economic aspects--United States; Slavery--United
States--Econometric models.
David W. Galenson (1986).
Traders, Planters, and Slaves: Market Behavior in Early English
America. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 230
p.). Royal African Company--History; Slave-trade--West Indies,
British--History; Slavery--Economic aspects--West Indies,
British; United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Peter J. George (1982).
The Emergence of Industrial America: Strategic Factors in
American Economic Growth since 1870 (Albany, NY: State
University of New York Press, 242 p.). Industries--United
States--History; United States--Economic conditions.
Ed. Claudia Goldin and Hugh Rockoff (1992).
Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic
History: A Volume to Honor Robert W. Fogel (Chicago, IL:
University of Chicago Press, 491 p.). Labor market--United
States--History--20th century--Congresses; Capital
market--United States--History--20th century--Congresses; United
States--Economic conditions--Congresses.
John D. Haeger (1981).
The Investment Frontier: New York Businessmen and the Economic
Development of the Old Northwest (Albany, NY: State
University of New York Press, 311 p.). Bronson, Arthur; Butler,
Charles, 1802-1897; Investments--West (U.S.)--History--19th
century; Capitalists and financiers--New York
(State)--History--19th century; Capitalists and financiers--West
(U.S.)--History--19th century; West (U.S.)--Economic
conditions--19th century.
--- (1991).
John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic
(Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 365 p.). Astor, John
Jacob, 1763-1848; Businesspeople--United States--Biography;
United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.
Robert L. Heilbroner (1994).
The Economic Transformation of America: 1600 to the Present.
(Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace, 416 p. [4th ed.]).
Industrialization--United States--History; United
States--Economic conditions.
Robert L. Heilbroner, Aaron Singer (1994).
The Economic Transformation of America to 1865. (Fort
Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 148 p.).
Industrialization--United States--History; United
States--Economic conditions--To 1865.
--- (1994).
The Economic Transformation of America Since 1865. (Fort
Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 268 p.). United
States--Economic conditions--1865-1918; United States--Economic
conditions--1918-1945; United States--Economic
conditions--1945-.
--- (1999).
The Economic Transformation of America: 1600 to the Present.
(Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 390 p. [4th
ed.]). Industrialization--United States--History; United
States--Economic conditions.
Ed. Ralph W. Hidy and Paul E. Cawein (1967).
The Formative Era of American Enterprise (Boston, MA:
Heath). United States--Economic conditions; United
States--Commerce--History. The Virginia Company, 1606-1624, by
J. B. Forry.--Boston merchants and the Puritan ethic, 1630-1691,
by R. W. Sprague.--The factory system, 1789-1850, by J. S.
Hazlett.--Glossary.
Brooke Hindle and Steven Lubar (1986).
Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution, 1790-1860
(Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 309 p.).
Technological innovations--Economic aspects--United
States--History; Industries--United States--History; United
States--Economic conditions--To 1865.
James L. Huston (1987).
The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War.
(Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 315 p.).
Depressions--1857--United States; United States--Economic
conditions--To 1865; United States--Politics and
government--1857-1861.
--- (2003).
Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights,
and the Economic Origins of the Civil War. (Chapel Hill,
NC: University of North Carolina Press, 394 p.).
Slavery--Economic aspects--United States--History; Right of
property--United States--History; United States--History--Civil
War, 1861-1865--Causes; United States--History--Civil War,
1861-1865--Economic aspects.
Stephen Innes (1995).
Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New
England. (New York, NY: Norton, 405 p.). Professor of
History (University of Virginia). Work ethic--New
England--History; Entrepreneurship--New England--History;
Capitalism--New England--History; New England--Economic
conditions.
Eds. Douglas A. Irwin and Richard Sylla
(2011).
Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the 1790s.
(Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 353 p.). Robert E.
Maxwell ’23 Professor of Arts and Sciences in the Department of
Economics (Dartmouth College); Henry Kaufmann Professor of the
History of Financial Institutions and Markets and Professor of
Economics (New York University). United States -- Economic
policy -- 18th century -- Congresses.
Economic decisions of founding fathers ensured general welfare,
common defense of United States for decades to come: economic
choices, their profound influence on American life, westward
expansion, influence abroad (finance, trade, monetary and
banking policy - factors guiding policies, end result).
Arthur M. Johnson and Barry E. Supple (1967).
Boston Capitalists and Western Railroads; a Study in the
Nineteenth-Century Railroad Investment Process (Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 392 p.). Railroads--United
States--Finance.
Eds. Marianne Johnson, Steven G. Medema,
Warren J. Samuels (2003).
Foundations of the American Economy: The American Colonies from
Inception to Independence. (Brookfield, VT: Pickering &
Chatto, 5 vols.). Economics--United States--History; United
States--Economic conditions--To 1865. Contents: v. 1. From
theocracy to secular, materialist commercial society -- v. 2.
Individualism and the structure of power -- v. 3. Colonial
money, credit and debt -- v. 4. Mercantilism and colonialism,
pt. 1 -- v. 5. Mercantilism and colonialism, pt. 2.
Alice Hanson Jones (1980).
Wealth of a Nation To Be: the American Colonies on the Eve of
the Revolution.
(New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 494 p.).
Wealth--United States--History; United States--Economic
conditions--To 1865.
Edward S. Kaplan (1999).
The Bank of the United States and the American Economy
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 172 p.). Bank of the United
States (1791-1811)--History; Bank of the United States
(1816-1836)--History; United States--Economic conditions--To
1865.
Robert M. La Follette (1973).
The Making of America. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 3
vols. [orig. pub. 1906]). United States--Economic conditions;
United States--Social conditions--To 1865; United States--Social
conditions--1865-1918. Incomplete Contents: --v. 3. Industry and
finance.
Ed. Cathy Matson (2006).
The Economy of Early America: Historical Perspectives & New
Directions. (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State
University Press, 380 p.). Professor of History (University of
Delaware). United States--Economic conditions--To 1865; United
States--Economic conditions--1865-1918; Great
Britain--Colonies--America--Economic conditions.
Cultural, intellectual
studies, political economy, social history.
John J. McCusker & Russell R. Menard (1985).
The Economy of British America, 1607-1789. (Chapel Hill,
NC: University of North Caroilina Press, 485 p.). United
States--Economic conditions--To 1865; Great
Britain--Colonies--America--Economic conditions.
eds. John J. McCusker and Kenneth Morgan
(2000).
The Early Modern Atlantic Economy. (New York, NY:
Cambridge University Press, 369 p.). Great
Britain--Colonies--Commerce--History--18th century; Great
Britain--Commerce--America--History--18th century;
America--Commerce--Great Britain--History--18th century;
France--Colonies--Commerce--History--17th century;
France--Commerce--America--History--17th century;
America--Commerce--France--History--17th century.
Ed. Steven G. Medema (2006).
The Role of Government in the History of Economic Thought.
(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 376 p.). Professor of
Economics (University of Colorado at Denver).
Economics--History--20th century; Economics--History; Government
policy--United States. History of evolution of relationship between governments
and economies.
Eds. Steven G. Medema and Warren J. Samuels
(2001).
Historians of Economics and Economic Thought: The Construction
of Disciplinary Memory. (New York, NY: Routledge, 360
p.). Economics--History--20th century; Economics--History;
Economics--Historiography; Economists--History;
Economists--Biography.
Work of key historians of economics; their impact.
Curtis Putnam Nettels (1962).
The Emergence of a National Economy, 1775-1815. (New
York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 424 p.). United
States--Economic conditions.
--- (1964). The Money Supply of the
American Colonies Before 1720. (New York, NY: A. M. Kelley,
300 p. [orig. pub. 1934]). Currency question--United States;
United States--Commerce--History; Great
Britain--Colonies--America--Financial questions; Great
Britain--Colonies--Commerce; United States--History--Colonial
period, ca. 1600-1775; United States--Economic conditions.
Douglass C. North (1961).
The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860.
(Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 304 p.). United
States--Economic conditions--To 1865.
John B. Pearse (1970).
A Concise History of the Iron Manufacture of the American
Colonies up to the Revolution, and of Pennsylvania until the
Present Time (New York, NY: B. Franklin, 282 p. [Reprint
1876 ed.]). Iron industry and trade--United States; Iron
industry and trade--Pennsylvania.
Edwin H. Perkins (1988).
The Economy of Colonial America (New York, NY: Columbia
University Press, 251 p. [2nd ed.]). United States -- Economic
conditions -- To 1865.
Jonathan Prude (1983).
The Coming of Industrial Order: Town and Factory Life in rural
Massachusetts, 1810-1860. (New York, NY: Cambridge
University Press, 364 p.).
Industries--Massachusetts--History--19th century.
Alvin Rabushka (2008).
Taxation in Colonial America. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 968 p.). David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow
at the Hoover Institution (Stanford University).
Taxation--United States--History--17th century; Taxation--United
States--History--18th century; United States--History--Colonial
period, ca. 1600-1775. How
colonists strove to minimize, avoid, evade British, local
taxation; how they used tax incentives to foster settlement;
systems of public finance they created to reduce taxation; how
they gained control over taxes through elected representatives
in colonial legislatures; external taxes imposed on colonists by
Britain, Netherlands, Sweden; internal direct taxes (poll,
income taxes); indirect taxes (duties, tonnage fees, county and
town taxes, church and education taxes, bounties, other
charges); means of payment (gold coins, agricultural
commodities, wampum, furs); compares tax systems, burdens among
colonies, with Britain.
Roger L. Ransom (1981).
Coping with Capitalism: The Economic Transformation of the
United States, 1776-1980 (Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 186 p.). United States--Economic conditions.
Roger L. Ransom, Richard Sutch (2001).
One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation.
(New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 458 p. [2nd ed.]).
Professor of History and Economics (University of California,
Riverside); Distinguished Professor of Economics (University of
California, Riverside). Afro-Americans--Southern
States--Economic conditions; Southern States--Economic
conditions; Southern States--History--1865-1951.
Single best
introduction to economy of early post-emancipation,
postbellum, economy of South.
Charles Rappleye (2010).
Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution.
(New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 416 p.). Investigative
Journalist. Morris, Robert, 1734-1806; Governors --Pennsylvania
--Biography; United States --History --Revolution, 1775-1783
--Biography; United States --Politics and government --1775-1783
--Biography. Merchant prince of Philadelphia, moneyman of our
revolution.
Heather Cox Richardson (1997).
The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies
During the Civil War. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 342 p.). Associate Professor, Department of History
(University of Massachusetts). Republican Party (U.S. : 1854-
)--History; United States--Economic policy--To 1933; United
States--Economic conditions--To 1865; United
States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
W. J. Rorabaugh (1986).
The Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age in
America. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 270
p.). Apprentices--United States--History; United States--Social
life and customs--1783-1865.
Arthur M. Schlesinger (1918).
The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763-1776.
(New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 647 p.). United
States. Continental Congress; United States--Commerce--History;
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes.
Charles G. Sellers (1991).
The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846
(New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 502 p.).
Capitalism--Social aspects--United States--History--19th
century; Representative government and representation--United
States--History--19th century; Democracy--History--19th century;
United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.
James F. Shepherd and Gary M. Walton (1972).
Shipping, Maritime Trade, and the Economic Development of
Colonial North America. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 255 p.). Shipping--United States--History;
United States--Commerce--History; United
States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Walter Buckingham Smith and Arthur Harrison
Cole (1969). Fluctuations in American Business, 1790-1860.
(New York, NY: Russell & Russell, 195 p. [orig. pub.1935]).
Prices--United States--History; United States--Economic
conditions--To 1865.
Robert Sobel (1971).
Conquest and Conscience: The 1840's. (New York, NY:
Crowell, 330 p.). United States--History--1815-1861; United
States--Economic conditions--To 1865; United States--Social
conditions--To 1865.
Douglas Steeples and David O. Whitten (1998).
Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 261 p.).
Depressions--1893--United States; United States--Politics and
government--1893-1897; United States--Economic
conditions--1865-1918.
Barbara Tucker, Kenneth H. Tucker, Jr. (2008).
Industrializing Antebellum America: The Rise of Manufacturing
Entrepreneurs in the Early Republic. (New York, NY:
Palgrave Macmillan, 272 p.). Professor of History and Director
of the Center for Connecticut Studies (Eastern Connecticut State
University); Professor of Sociology (Mount Holyoke College).
Businesspeople --United States --Biography; Industrialists
--United States --Biography; Entrepreneurship --United States
--History --19th century. Rise of manufacturing through beliefs,
practices of Samuel Colt, John Fox Slater, Horatio Nelson
Slater, Amos Adams Lawrence, their families - dominated
firearms, textile industries, influence beyond respective
enterprises.
Edwin Tunis (1965).
Colonial Craftsmen and the Beginnings of American Industry
(Cleveland, OH: World Pub. Co., 159 p.). Technology--United
States--History; Industries--United States--History; Decorative
arts, Early American; Technology--United States--History;
Industries--United States--History; Decorative arts, Early
American; United States--Social life and customs--To 1775;
United States--Social life and customs--To 1775.
Mark Valeri (2010).
Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan
America. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
354 p.). Ernest Trice Thompson Professor of Church History
(Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian
Education in Virginia). Puritans --Doctrines --History --17th
century; Puritans --Doctrines --History --18th century; Puritans
--Influence; Business --Religious aspects --Christianity; United
States --Religion --To 1800.
Moral conviction, commercial
culture in early New England; religion's role in creation of
market economy in early America; economic culture of New
England; how four generations of Boston merchants built modern
form of exchange out of profound transitions in puritan
understanding of discipline, providence, meaning of New England;
how Boston ministers reconstituted their moral
languages over course of century; how changing ideas about what it meant to be
pious, puritan informed business practices of Boston's
merchants.
Gary M. Walton and James F. Shepherd (1979).
The Economic Rise of Early America (New York, NY:
Cambridge University Press, 226 p.). United
States--Commerce--History; Great
Britain--Colonies--America--Commerce.
Chester W. Wright (1941). Economic History
of the United States. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1120 p.).
United States--Economic conditions.
Robert E. Wright (2002).
The Wealth of Nations Rediscovered: Integration and Expansion in
American Financial Markets, 1780-1850. (New York, NY:
Cambridge University Press, p.). Finance--United
States--History; Wealth--United States--History; United
States--Economic policy; United States--Economic conditions.
--- (2002).
Hamilton Unbound: Finance and the Creation of the American
Republic. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, p.). Hamilton,
Alexander, 1757-1804; Finance--United States--History; Finance,
Public--United States--History; United States--Politics and
government--1783-1809.
