The Roots of American Industrialization

by David R. Meyer

Book Overview

How did the Eastern United States of the antebellum era make the successful transformation from an agricultural to an industrial economy? Previous studies have identified declining soil fertility and increased competition from the Midwest as incentives for Easterners to abandon farms for factories. But as David R. Meyer points out in this groundbreaking study, agriculture in the East was, in fact, thriving during this time, even as manufacturing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801871417
• ISBN13: 9780801871412
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.1" x 9.1"