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Strategic factors in nineteenth century American economic history : a volume to honor Robert W. Fogel / edited by Claudia Goldin and Hugh Rockoff.

Title: Strategic factors in nineteenth century American economic history : a volume to honor Robert W. Fogel / edited by Claudia Goldin and Hugh Rockoff.
Publication: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.

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ix, 491 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Offering new research on strategic factors in the development of the nineteenth century American economy--labor, capital, and political structure--the contributors to this volume employ a methodology innovated by Robert W. Fogel, one of the leading pioneers of the "new economic history." Fogel's work is distinguished by the application of economic theory and large-scale quantitative evidence to long-standing historical questions." "These sixteen essays reveal, by example, the continuing vitality of Fogel's approach. The authors use an astonishing variety of data, including genealogies, the U.S. federal population census manuscripts, manumission and probate records, firm accounts, farmers' account books, and slave narratives, to address collectively market integration and its impact on the lives of Americans. Students of labor history will find essays that reveal which laborers gained from early industrialization, how labor markets of the period responded to macroeconomic disturbances, and what role was played by contract labor in northern agriculture. For those with interests in monetary and financial history, there are essays that examine antebellum financial market integration, the effects of disturbances in financial markets on the real economy, and the accumulation and distribution of wealth. Demographers will benefit from five innovative studies: one setting forth new period and cohort mortality estimates, another on nutrition and health among free African-Americans, a revealing portrait of the slave family, and, lastly, two explaining the fertility decline. Finally, three essays are devoted to political economy, one to railroad financing in Canada and two to the economic consequences of urban politics in the United States.".
"The volume also includes two appreciations of Fogel written by Stanley L. Engerman and Donald N. McCloskey, and a bibliography of Fogel's writings. Economic historians will find the volume indispensable because of its wealth of new findings and conjectures about the nature of economic development in the nineteenth century; it also provides a basis for appreciating the contribution of the new economic history and Fogel's central role within it."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report

Uniform Title

Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)

Alternative Title

Strategic factors in 19th century American economic history.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.

Note

Papers presented at a conference held Mar. 2-3, 1991 in Cambridge, Mass.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"The writings of Robert W. Fogel": p. 471-474.

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Contents

Robert William Fogel : an appreciation by a coauthor and colleague / Stanley L. Engerman -- Robert William Fogel : an appreciation by an adopted student / Donald N. McCloskey -- The market for manufacturing workers during early industrialization : the American Northeast, 1820 to 1860 / Kenneth L. Sokoloff and Georgia C. Villaflor -- Wages, prices, and labor markets before the Civil War / Claudia Goldin and Robert A. Margo -- Structural change in the farm labor force : contract labor in Massachusetts agriculture, 1750-1865 / Winifred B. Rothenberg -- Farm tenancy in the antebellum North / Donghyu Yang -- Regional interest rates in antebellum America / Howard Bodenhorn and Hugh Rockoff.
Money versus credit rationing : evidence for the national banking era, 1880-1914 / Michael D. Bordo, Peter Rappoport, and Anna J. Schwartz -- Precedence and wealth : evidence from nineteenth-century Utah / David W. Galenson and Clayne L. Pope -- The wealth of women, 1774 / Alice Hanson with the assistance of Boris Simkovich -- Adult mortality in America before 1900 : a view from family histories / Clayne L. Pope -- Toward an anthropometric history of African-Americans : the case of the free Blacks in antebellum Maryland / John Komlos -- The slave family : a view from the slave narratives / Stephen Crawford -- The fertility transition in the United States : tests of alternative hypotheses / Richard H. Steckel.
Trading quantity for quality : explaining the decline in American fertility in the nineteenth century / Jenny Bourne Wahl -- The profitability of early Canadian railroads : evidence form the Grand Trunk and Great Western railway companies / Ann M. Carlos and Frank Lewis -- The rise and fall of urban political patronage machines / Joseph D. Reid, Jr., and Michael M. Kurth -- Dividing labor : urban politics and big-city construction in late-nineteenth-century America / Gerald Friedman.

ISBN

0226301125 (cloth)

LCCN

^^^91038721^

OCLC

24629499
SCSB-11330463

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library