Government and the American Economy: A New HistoryUniversity of Chicago Press, 2008 M09 15 - 560 páginas The American economy has provided a level of well-being that has consistently ranked at or near the top of the international ladder. A key source of this success has been widespread participation in political and economic processes. In The Government and the American Economy, leading economic historians chronicle the significance of America’s open-access society and the roles played by government in its unrivaled success story. |
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... of black workers in the South after the Civil War , Competition and Coercion ( 1977 ) , described the interplay of market competition , which often served to limit the discrimination faced by African Americans , and coercion by govern ...
... African Americans, Guglielmo and Troesken's story of control and competition in the oil market, and Fishback's account of the New Deal. These are stories in which the beliefs of the players shaped the policies they pursued, and this ...
... African Americans, and various economic issues eventually culminated in the Civil War. In chapter 7 Jeffrey Rogers Hummel traces these developments as well as the impact of the war on the American economy, and the way the outcome of the ...
... American success story. Robert A. Margo traces the governments' role in policy toward African Americans in chapter 8, encompassing the promotion and protection of slavery, the development of Jim Crow laws and seg- regated schools in the ...
... African islands, including the Azores, Madeira, the Cape Verde Islands, Fernando Po, Principe, and São Tomé, and Spain settled the Canary Islands, before both crossed the Atlantic to settle in the Americas. The Portuguese settled in ...
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3 The Founding Era 1774 1791 | 56 |
4 Property Rights and Federal Land Policy | 89 |
Government and the Financial System since 1789 | 115 |
6 The National Era | 148 |
7 The Civil War and Reconstruction | 188 |
8 Government and the American Dilemma | 232 |
13 The New Deal | 384 |
14 The World Wars | 431 |
15 The Growth of US Farm Programs | 456 |
The Role of the South | 490 |
17 Seeking Security in the Postwar Era | 507 |
APPENDIX A Key Indicators of Economic and Government Activity | 557 |
APPENDIX B The Articles of Confederation | 571 |
APPENDIX C The Constitution of the United States | 581 |
9 The Gilded Age | 255 |
10 The Progressive Era | 288 |
Labor Education and Health | 323 |
From Patronage to Civil Service | 364 |
APPENDIX D The Bill of Rights | 593 |
INDEX | 595 |
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Government and the American Economy: A New History Price V. Fishback Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |