The Transportation Revolution, 1815-60

Neuauflage 1977
ISBN: 978-0-87332-101-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc

Buch, Englisch, 520 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: The Economic History of the United States

Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development and rapid growth of transportation across the USA in the mid-1800s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, George R.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I: Merchant Capitalism, 1815; II: Roads and Bridges; III: The Canal Era; IV: Steamboats on River, Lake, and Bay; V: Railroads; VI: The Merchant Marine; VII: Changing Costs and Speed of Transportation and Communication; VIII: Domestic Trade; IX: Foreign Trade; X: Manufacturing: Early Development; XI: Manufacturing: The Factory System; XII: The Workers Under Changing Conditions 1; XIII: The Emergence of the Wage Earner; XIV: Financial Institutions; XV: Money, Prices, and Economic Fluctuations; XVI: The Role of Government; XVII: The National Economy in 1860; Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

George R. Taylor