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Strategic factors in nineteenth century American economic history [[electronic resource] ] : a volume to honor Robert W. Fogel / / edited by Claudia Goldin and Hugh Rockoff
| Strategic factors in nineteenth century American economic history [[electronic resource] ] : a volume to honor Robert W. Fogel / / edited by Claudia Goldin and Hugh Rockoff |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c1992 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (504 p.) |
| Disciplina | 330.973/05 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
FogelRobert William
GoldinClaudia Dale RockoffHugh |
| Collana |
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research) |
| Soggetto topico |
Labor market - United States - History - 20th century
Capital market - United States - History - 20th century |
| Soggetto non controllato | labor market, economics, history, agriculture, manufacturing, capital, credit, slavery, government, unions, regulation, manumission, farming, industrialization, wages, prices, railroads, fertility, slave narratives, wealth, banking, farm tenancy, antebellum, political patronage, women, gender, nonfiction, free blacks, urban politics, construction, interest rates, utah |
| ISBN |
1-281-43100-1
9786611431006 0-226-30135-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Two Appreciations -- 1. The Market for Manufacturing Workers during Early Industrialization: The American Northeast, 1820 to 1860 -- 2. Wages, Prices, and Labor Markets before the Civil War -- 3. Structural Change in the Farm Labor Force: Contract Labor in Massachusetts Agriculture, 1750-1865 -- 4. Farm Tenancy in the Antebellum North -- 5. Regional Interest Rates in Antebellum America -- 6. Money versus Credit Rationing: Evidence for the National Banking Era, 1880-1914 -- 7. Precedence and Wealth: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Utah -- 8. The Wealth of Women, 1774 -- 9. Adult Mortality in America before 1900: A View from Family Histories -- 10. Toward an Anthropometric History of African-Americans: The Case of the Free Blacks in Antebellum Maryland -- 11. The Slave Family: A View from the Slave Narratives -- 12. The Fertility Bansition in the United States: Tests of Alternative Hypotheses -- 13. Bading Quantity for Quality: Explaining the Decline in American Fertility in the Nineteenth Century -- 14. The Profitability of Early Canadian Railroads: Evidence from the Grand Bunk and Great Western Railway Companies -- 15. The Rise and Fall of Urban Political Patronage Machines -- 16. Dividing Labor: Urban Politics and Big-City Construction in Late-Nineteenth- Century America -- Dissertations Supervised by Robert W. Fogel -- The Writings of Robert W. Fogel -- Biographies -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816791403321 |
| Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c1992 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
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