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Author Weaver, Frederick Stirton, 1939-

Title An economic history of the United States : conquest, conflict, and struggles for equality / Frederick S. Weaver.

Publication Info. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.

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 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  330.973 WEAVER    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  330.973 W363E    Check Shelf
Description xvi, 286 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : some initial definitions and organizational strategies -- Colonial roots -- Mercantilism, British colonialism, and independence -- Mercantilism and European commercial expansion, 1450-1750 -- The establishment of English colonies in North America -- Colonial unrest and revolution -- The new nation : from revolution to civil war -- Defining the new nation -- New political institutions in a new nation -- Finding their place in the world -- A transportation transformation -- Competitive capitalist industrial development -- Regions, sections, and civil war -- Contrasting patterns of regional development -- Sectional conflict and war -- Fifty years after the Civil War -- Wartime legislation, western expansion, and Reconstruction -- Six wartime policy initiatives -- Federal government finances -- The conquest of the Western Frontier -- Presidential and congressional reconstructions in the South -- Changing forms of industrial development -- Finance capitalist industrialization : new patterns -- Social change, politics, and reform -- The end of Reconstruction in the U.S. South -- New social structures -- The reform impulse -- Progressives and reform -- The United States in the world -- International trade and investment -- Ambivalent colonialism -- Into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- War, depression, war -- World War I and the domestic reform agenda -- Postwar troubles and issues -- New tendencies in the U.S. economy -- The Great Depression -- World War II and war capitalism -- Post-World War II recovery and modern times, 1945-1980s -- Postwar reconstruction of the international political economy -- The tumultuous post-World War II years in the United States -- The structure of modern times -- Modern times in motion -- The dissolution of U.S. modern times, 1980s into the twenty-first century -- The success and failure of the Bretton Woods system -- President Ronald Reagan's two terms -- The end of U.S. modern times -- New patterns in the U.S. economy -- The Great Recession, austerity, and three worrisome tendencies -- The genesis of the Great Recession -- Three worrisome trends -- U.S. presidents -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Subject United States -- Economic conditions.
Economia -- Stati Uniti d'America -- Storia.
Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Wirtschaft. (DE-588)4066399-1
Industrie. (DE-588)4026779-9
Wirtschaftsentwicklung. (DE-588)4066438-7
Kreditwesen. (DE-588)4032950-1
Krise. (DE-588)4033203-2
United States. (DE-588)4078704-7
ISBN 9781442255197 (cloth : alk. paper)
1442255196 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781442257238 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1442257237 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781442255203 (electronic)
Standard No. 40025521569
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