Europe, America, and the Wider World

This volume collects Professor Parker's major writings on American agricultural and industrial history, including some essays not previously published. Taken as a whole, these essays give an account of why and how the United States grew rich in the nineteenth century, as well as a background against which to judge the present position of the economy and its international position. Professor Parker focuses on the nineteenth-century experience of the three regions of the United States--northeast, south and midwest, and shows wherein lay the sources of their wealth and growth into a flourishing nation. A final chapter, looking at European development from an American perspective, is especially timely in view of the recent movements toward integration and democratization in the "mother continent."

• | Author: William N. Parker
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 26, 1991
• | Number of Pages: 390 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0521254663
• | ISBN-13: 9780521254663