Looks at the economic, political, and social issues arising from American industrial development.
A three volume set plus cumulative index provides a historical overview of the economic, political, and social issues arising from American industrial development.
Covers the individuals and events related to such topics as world events, the arts, communication, education, government and politics, and science and medicine from the colonial era onward.
World Regional Geography by Finlayson provides a concise and accessible introduction to the major concepts in Geography through an exploration of the world's regions. This innovative textbook, which has been...
In Industrial Development and Manufacturing in the Antebellum Gulf South, historian Michael S. Frawley engages a wide variety of sources—including United States census data, which many historians have underutilized when gauging economic ...
New York: Random House. Cutcliffe, Stephen H. 1989. “Cambria Iron Company.” In Iron and Steel in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Paul F. Paskoff. Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography. New York: Facts on File.
The book looks at a wide spectrum of countries and industries from Silicon Valley to the early Asian model of building domestic industries. The book also reveals that academics and policy makers can be a major source of policy failure.
Wage data for the East include the New England states , New York , New Jersey , and Pennsylvania . Margo , Wages and Labor Markets in the United States , 1820-1860 , 71-73 , tables 3A.9–3A.11 ; Weiss , “ Economic Growth before 1860 ...
But this is just the beginning: nanomaterials 200 times stronger than steel and a million times thinner than a strand of hair and the first transplant of a 3D printed liver are already in development.
However, this process has been very uneven with some parts of the developing world still largely non-industrial. This book aims to explain this process from the perspective of developing countries.
Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy is pioneering microanalysis of 59 Argentinean corporations between 1890 and 1930 that explains Argentina's failure to develop an efficient manufacturing sector, even as countries in similar ...