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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

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

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

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