American economic history

American economic history is the study of the growth and development of the American economy from colonial times to the present.

1776 to 1840

• First Bank of the United States
• Alexander Hamilton
• Industrial Revolution

1900 to 1945

• Henry Ford
• Great Depression

Recent history

• Financial Crisis of 2008

See also

• Agricultural history of the U.S.
• Business history
• Economic history

Bibliography

Surveys and textbooks

• EH.Net Encyclopedia, a highly recommended free on-line encyclopedia of economic history.
• Bruchey, Stuart. Growth of the Modern American Economy (1975), brief. online edition
• Clark, Victor S. History of Manufactures in the United States: 1607-1860 (1916) online at books.google.com
• Dewey, Davis Rich. Financial History of the United States (1922), standard textbook by a conservative scholar free online edition
• Engerman, Stanley L., and Robert E. Gallman (eds.), The Cambridge Economic History of the United States: Volume I, The Colonial Era (1996).
• Faulkner, Harold Underwood. American Economic History (1924), an old textbook that is still reliable. online edition
• Hughes, Jonathan, and Louis P. Cain. American Economic History (7th Edition 2006)
• Johnson, Emory R. et al. History of Domestic and Foreign Commerce of the United States (1915), old but detailed and useful vol 1 online free
• Lee, Susan Previant, and Peter Passell. A New Economic View of American History (1979), summarizes the "new economic history"
• McCusker, John J. ed. Economy of British America, 1607-1789 (1991), 540pp, standard scholarly survey
• Nettels, Curtis. The Emergence of a National Economy, 1775-1815 (1962)
• Olson, James S. Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in America (2001)
• Porter, Glenn, ed. Encyclopedia of American Economic History (3 vol 1980)
• Taylor, George Rogers. The Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860 (1951)
• Weiss, Thomas, and Donald Schaefer; American Economic Development in Historical Perspective (1994) online edition

Industries

• Chandler, Alfred. The Visible Hand. (1977) famous history of big business 1880-1930
• Copeland, Melvin Thomas. The Cotton Manufacturing Industry of the United States (1912) ch 1. online
• Misa, Thomas. A Nation Of Steel: The Making of Modem America, 1865-1925. (1995) excerpt and text search

Regional

• Black, John D. The Rural Economy of New England: A regional study (1950) online edition
• Weeden, William Babcock. Economic and Social History of New England, 1620-1789 (1891) 964 pages; online edition

Primary sources

• Phillips, Ulrich B. ed. Plantation and Frontier Documents, 1649-1863; Illustrative of Industrial History in the Colonial and Antebellum South: Collected from MSS. and Other Rare Sources. 2 Volumes. (1909). online vol 1 and online vol 2
• Schmidt, Louis Bernard. ed. Readings in the economic history of American agriculture (1925) online edition