The Economic Transformation of America to 1865
Author: Robert L. Heilbroner
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780495028758
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert L. Heilbroner
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780495028758
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert L. Heilbroner
Publisher: San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 388
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This extraordinary text offers a proven combination of scholarship from an insightful economist and a renowned American historian. It recounts the development of capitalism and the age of machines through the voices of business leaders, working people, inventors, and an unusual cast of presidents, generals, and patriots. Unlike other books in the field of economic history, this text tells a story. While not ignoring statistics and percentages, this narrative focuses on the fact that America's economic transformation is an extraordinary drama--a drama that continues today.
Author: Robert L. Heilbroner
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 286
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This text offers a combination of scholarship from an economist and a renowned American historian. It recounts the story of capitalism and the age of machines through the voices of business leaders, working people, inventors and a cast of presidents, generals and patriots.
Author: Robert Higgs
Publisher:
Published: 2011-09-20
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9781610162401
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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard Philip Adelstein
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780415584654
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Central economic planning is often associated with failed state socialism, and modern capitalism celebrated as its antithesis. This book shows that central planning is not always, or even primarily, a state enterprise, and that the giant industrial corporations that dominated the American economy through the twentieth century were, first and foremost, unprecedented examples of successful, consensual central planning at a very large scale.
Author: James Norris
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1990-10-24
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the period between 1865 to 1920, as America shifted from a rural-farming economy to urban-manufacturing, a major transformation also occurred in the behavior of the country's consumers. This change is perhaps best illustrated in the advertisements that appeared in popular magazines. They began by simply informing consumers of the cost and availability of a product, but, by 1920, they were projecting an image that defined the American dream in terms of a consumption ethic. In this historical analysis of advertisements, James Norris explores this transformation of society and its ads, and the role that advertising played in developing a national market for consumer goods, creating demand for mass-produced items, and shifting the consumption habits of Americans. Focusing primarily on popular journals and magazines with national circulations, Norris traces how, by the 1920s, America had become a society in which consumption and spending had replaced old virtues. He examines a number of issues affecting this change, including how national markets developed, how consumers were convinced to buy products they had never seen before, what appeals manufacturers used to build markets, and how consumers were persuaded to purchase items that had previously been produced locally or in the home. Other factors that played a role in the transformation are also considered, such as the breakdown of localism, an increasingly educated citizenry, the potential for mass production, and a growth in per-capita income. Whenever possible, the advertisements themselves have been quoted and reproduced, fully illustrating Norris' premise that they are mirrors of the society that produced them. This study will be an important resource for courses in business history, economics, women's studies, and the history of advertising, as well as a valuable addition to college, university, and public libraries.
Author: Mark R. Wilson
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2006-07-15
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0801888832
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This wide-ranging, original account of the politics and economics of the giant military supply project in the North reconstructs an important but little-known part of Civil War history. Drawing on new and extensive research in army and business archives, Mark R. Wilson offers a fresh view of the wartime North and the ways in which its economy worked when the Lincoln administration, with unprecedented military effort, moved to suppress the rebellion. This task of equipping and sustaining Union forces fell to career army procurement officers. Largely free from political partisanship or any formal free-market ideology, they created a mixed military economy with a complex contracting system that they pieced together to meet the experience of civil war. Wilson argues that the North owed its victory to these professional military men and their finely tuned relationships with contractors, public officials, and war workers. Wilson also examines the obstacles military bureaucrats faced, many of which illuminated basic problems of modern political economy: the balance between efficiency and equity, the promotion of competition, and the protection of workers' welfare. The struggle over these problems determined the flow of hundreds of millions of dollars; it also redirected American political and economic development by forcing citizens to grapple with difficult questions about the proper relationships among government, business, and labor. Students of the American Civil War will welcome this fresh study of military-industrial production and procurement on the home front—long an obscure topic.
Author: Jack Beatty
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2007-04-10
Total Pages: 547
ISBN-13: 0307267245
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Age of Betrayal is a brilliant reconsideration of America's first Gilded Age, when war-born dreams of freedom and democracy died of their impossibility. Focusing on the alliance between government and railroads forged by bribes and campaign contributions, Jack Beatty details the corruption of American political culture that, in the words of Rutherford B. Hayes, transformed “a government of the people, by the people, and for the people” into “a government by the corporations, of the corporations, and for the corporations.” A passionate, gripping, scandalous and sorrowing history of the triumph of wealth over commonwealth.