Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development and rapid growth of transportation across the USA in the mid-1800s.

Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development and rapid growth of transportation across the USA in the mid-1800s.

The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived ...

Focuses on pre-Civil War reform movements and notable reformers.

"Focuses on networks of people, information, conveyances, and other resources and technologies that moved slave-based products from suppliers to buyers and users." (page 3) The book examines the credit and financial systems that grew up ...

Based on impeccable scholarship and written with grace and style, this volume provides a sweeping political and social history of the entire period from the diplomacy of John Quincy Adams to the birth of Mormonism under Joseph Smith, from ...

This text surveys findings of the new field of Environmental History about how the environment of the Americas influenced the actions of people here and how people affected their environments, from prehistory to the present"--Textbook Web ...

... 1815-1860 George Rogers Taylor: THE TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION, 1815-1860 Fred A. Shannon: THE FARMER'S LAST FRONTIER: Agriculture, 1860-1897 Edward C. Kirkland: INDUSTRY COMES OF AGE: Business, Labor, and Public Policy, 1860-1897 Harold ...