In recent years, scholars in a number of disciplines have focused their attention on understanding the early American economy. This text enters the resurgent di

The colonial era is especially appealing in regard to economic history because it represents a study in contrasts. The economy was exceptionally dynamic in term

By the American Revolution, the farmers and city-dwellers of British America had achieved, individually and collectively, considerable prosperity. The nature an

A look at the role of state policies in North-South economic divergence and in American industrial development leading up to the Civil War. In 1796, famed engin

The American economy has provided a level of well-being that has consistently ranked at or near the top of the international ladder. A key source of this succes