economic history

Discusses the impact of the industrial revolution on American society focusing on working conditions, child labor, and the relationship between unions and big business.

Provides an account of how the industrial world emerged in the late eighteenth century, looking at how people lived and worked in pre-industrial England, and examining the reasons why the country was ready for change. Includes biographies, photographs, maps, graphs, and a time line.

Explores the economic, historical, political, and social reasons why some countries prosper and others do not.

Analyzes the American economy and economic policies and proposes the Roman-Loebl economic theories as a means of solving current problems and preventing future ones.

A collection of fifty-six articles from magazines, newspapers, and journals discussing issues pertaining to economics such as banking, competition, corporate responsibility, deregulation, health care, inflation, the Internet, protectionism, taxation, and unemployment.

Explains how the world economy works, what caused the recent global financial crisis, and discusses the economic future.

In the early years of the nineteenth century American society as well as the societies of the European nations were agrarianpeople made their livings as farmers. Inventors would soon step forward, developing engines and ways to power them that would provide the framework for an industrialized society. By the dawn of the twentieth century, most cities in America and Europe had developed into industrial centers where cars and ships were manufactured, steel was produced and factories churned out consumer products.