Book of Donmon Teith

This benchmark volume addresses the debate over the effects of early industrialization on standards of living during the decades before the Civil War. Its contr

Papers of the National Bureau of Economic Research conference held at Dartmouth College on May 8-9, 2009.

Farms that were on poor soil and distant from markets declined, whereas other farms successfully adjusted production as rural and urban markets expanded and as

In recent years, scholars in a number of disciplines have focused their attention on understanding the early American economy. This text enters the resurgent di