Europe, America, and the Wider World: Volume 2, America and the Wider World: Essays on the Economic History of Western Capitalism (Studies in Economic History and Policy: USA in the Twentieth Century)

This volume collects Professor Parker's major writings on American agricultural and industrial history, including some essays not previously published. Taken as a whole, these essays give an account of why and how the United States grew rich in the nineteenth century, as well as a background against which to judge the present position of the economy and its international position. Professor Parker focuses on the nineteenth-century experience of the three regions of the United States—northeast, south and midwest, and shows wherein lay the sources of their wealth and growth into a flourishing nation. A final chapter, looking at European development from an American perspective, is especially timely in view of the recent movements toward integration and democratization in the "mother continent." Frontmatter......Page 1 Contents......Page 7 Editors' preface......Page 9 Preface......Page 11 Acknowledgments......Page 15 A note on notes......Page 17 PART I - AMERICA AND EUROPE: A HISTORY......Page 19 1 - American civilization: the impulse from Europe......Page 21 PART II - THE SOUTH IN SLAVERY AND IN FREEDOM......Page 49 2 - The slave plantation in American agriculture......Page 51 3 - Slavery and southern economic development: an hypothesis and some evidence......Page 59 4 - Labor productivity in cotton farming: a problem of research......Page 69 5 - The South in the national economy, 1865--1970......Page 85 6 - Capitalism: southern style......Page 105 PART III - CAPITALIST DYNAMICS OF THE RURAL NORTH......Page 119 7 - Breakthrough to the Midwest......Page 121 8 - Migration and a political culture......Page 133 9 - Technological knowledge: reproduction, diffusion, improvement......Page 156 10 - The true history of the northern farmer......Page 179 PART IV - THE NORTH: DYNAMICS OF AN INDUSTRIAL CULTURE......Page 199 11 - New England: the Puritan progenitor......Page 201 I. Resources and technology......Page 233 II. Labor power in industrial markets......Page 241 III. Capital: real and financial......Page 246 IV. Industrial and market organization......Page 258 V. Social organization and values......Page 263 Epilogue. Dénoument and decline......Page 268 PART V - AMERICAN VALUES IN A CAPITALIST WORLD......Page 277 13 - Political controls on a national economy......Page 279 14 - Nationhood in a common market......Page 299 15 - European industrialization in an American mirror......Page 316 ANNEXES......Page 329 A - A look backward......Page 331 B - A look forward......Page 352 Index......Page 373 This volume collects Professor Parker's major writings on American agricultural and industrial history, including some previously unpublished essays. Taken as a whole, these essays give an account of why and how the United States grew rich in the nineteenth century, as well as a background against which to judge the present position of the economy and its international position. Professor Parker focuses on the nineteenth-century experience of the three regions of the United States - northeast, south and midwest, and shows wherein lay the sources of their wealth and growth into a flourishing nation. A final chapter, looking at European development from an American perspective, is especially timely in view of the recent movements toward integration and democratisation in the 'mother continent'. Capitalism, like Christianity, is a pattern of human behavior endemic in Europe and the Americas and showing sufficient uniformities to justify its designation by a single word. V. 1. Europe And The World Economy -- V. 2. America And The Wider World. William N. Parker. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.