The Transportation Revolution, 1815-60 / Edition 1

by George R. Taylor

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780873321013
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/30/1977
Series:	Economic History of the United States SE
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	520
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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