MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE
History/Economics 2024 Fall, 2004
American Economic History Mr. Bowling
S. Hoffart
Requirements:
1. Attendance.
2. Participation.
3. Readings.
4. Successful completion of three examinations.
Books:
*Gary M. Walton and Hugh Rockoff, History of the American
Economy (Toronto, 10th ed., 2004).
Barton H. Barbour, Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade
(Norman, 2001).
Brian Black, Petrolia; The Landscape of America’s First Oil Boom
(Baltimore, 2000).
Steven W. Usselman, Regulating Railroad Innovations: Business,
Technology, and Politics in America, 1840-1920
(Cambridge, 2002)
Julio Moreno, Yankee Don’t Go Home! Mexican Nationalism and
the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950 (Chapel Hill,
2003).
John Brooks, Once in Golconda; A True Drama of Wall Street,
1920-1938 (New York, 1969).
Glenna Matthews, Silicon Valley, Women, and the California
Dream; Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth
Century (Stanford, 2002).
*Textbook.
Schedule: Topics Readings
Sept. 2 Introduction Walton, 1-3
Empire Building
Sept. 6 L A B O R D A Y
Sept. 9 Colonial Trade & Trouble Walton, 4-6
The Hamiltonian Vision Barbour
Sept. 13-16 Land Policies & Development Walton, 7-10
Legal Foundations Black
Early Industrialism
Sept. 20-23 Transportation Revolution Walton, 11-13
Agricultural Productivity
Sept. 27-30 Free vs. Slave Labor
Economics Effects of the Civil War
Oct. 4 F I R S T E X A M I N A T I O N
Oct. 7 Railway Age Walton, 14-17
Morgan & Co. Usselman
Urbanism as a Way of Life
Oct. 11 C O L U M B U S D A Y
Oct. 13-14 Captains of Industry Moreno
Labor Conflicts and Settlements
The Multi-Ethnic Labor Force
Oct. 18-21 Looking Outward Anew Walton, 18-20
Antitrust & Merger Mania
Origins of the Federal Reserve
Oct. 25-28 Wartime Mobilization I Walton, 21-23
Postwar Adjustment Troubles
Nov. 1-4 Consumerism, 1920s Style
The Mystery of 1929 & After
Nov. 8 S E C O N D E X A M I N A T I O N
Nov. 11 What was “New” in the New Deal Walton, 24-25
The Union Drive
Wartime Mobilization II
The Keynesian Idea and its Critics
Nov. 15-18 Postwar Labor/Management Brooks
Realignments
White Collar Organization Men
Nov. 22 The 50s/60s Macroeconomy Walton, 26-27
Unemployment/Inflation Concerns
Nov. 25 T H A N K S G I V I N G
Nov. 29-Dec. 2 The Great Society & its Critics
Nixonomics Matthews
The Oil Shock & its Aftereffects
Dec. 6-9 Capitalist Renaissance Walton, 28-29
The Digital Age
Post-Industrialism: the Akron Story
The Post-Cold War Global Economy
America Regit