1815-1850: Business and the Economy: Publications

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1815-1850: Business and the Economy: Publications

Nathan Appleton, Labor, its relations in Europe and the United States Compared (Boston: Eastburns Press, 1844);

Appleton, Remarks on currency and banking: having reference to the present derangement of the circulating medium in the United States (Boston: Little, Brown, 1841)one of antebellum Americas biggest capitalists gives his opinion of the economic situation after the Panic of 1837;

Henry William Ellsworth, Valley of the Upper Wabash, Indiana with hints on its agricultural advantages: Plan of a dwelling, estimates of cultivationj, and notices of labor-saving machines (New York: Pratt, Robinson, 1838)the son of one of Americas biggest land speculators, Patent Office commissioner Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, published this treatise on the prospects of prairie farming on the eve of its takeoff;

William M. Gouge, A Short History of Paper-Making and Banking in the United States (New York: B & S Collins, 1835)a good contemporary history;

McClane Report on Manufactures, Documents Relative to Manufactures in the United States, House Document No. 308, 22d Congress, 1st Session, 2 volumes (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1833)a window into the early years of American industrialization;

James Montgomery, A Practical Detail of Cotton Manufacturers of the United States (Glasgow: J. Niven; New York: Appleton, 1840)an account by a British expert on the industry.

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