This benchmark volume addresses the debate over the effects of early industrialization on standards of living during the decades before the Civil War. Its contributors demonstrate that the aggregate antebellum economy was growing faster than any other large economy had grown before. Despite the...

In contemporary American political discourse, issues related to the scope, authority, and the cost of the federal government are perennially at the center of discussion. Any historical analysis of this topic points directly to the Great Depression, the "moment" to which most historians and...

Frontmatter -- TABLE DES MATIÈRES -- ABRÉVIATIONS -- Historical precedent or accidental repetition of events? K'ou Chun in 1004 and Yu Ch'ien in 1449 -- Chu Hsi as an administrator -- The Ministry of Ceremony, li-pu (transi, from Sung-shih, ch. 163) -- The inauguration of t'i-chü hsüeh-shih...

Indications of geographic origin for foodstuffs and manufactures have become an important source of brand value since the beginnings of globalization during the late nineteenth century. In this work, David M. Higgins explores the early nineteenth-century business campaigns to secure national and...