Late Nineteenth-Century American Development

Preface; Part I. The Issues: 1. Late nineteenth-century American development: the issues; 2. Counterfactual history; Part II. The Framework: 3. A model of late nineteenth-century American regional growth; 4. American economic history rewritten: fact or fiction?; Part III. The Lessons of History: 5. The Great Depression, 1870–96; 6. Financial intermediation, capital immobilities, and economic growth; 7. Farmers' discontent and agricultural performance: facts, issues and an agenda; 8. Elements of agricultural performance: land expansion and productivity growth; 9. Transportation and American development during the Gilded Age: 1870–90; 10. Exports, world markets and American development; 11. Immigration and American growth; Part IV. The Facts of History: Appendix A: parameter estimation; Appendix B: the simulation in detail; Appendix C: data underlying the analysis of American immigration; Notes; Bibliography; Index.