MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE
History/Economics 2024 Fall, 2006
American Economic History Mr. Bowling
F. Notaristefano
Requirements:
1. Attendance.
2. Participation.
3. Readings.
4. Successful completion of three examinations.
Books:
*Jonathan Hughes & Louis P. Cain, American Economic History (New York, 7th ed., 2006).
Peter L. Bernstein, Wedding of the Waters; The Erie Canal & the Making of a Great
Nation (New York, 2005).
Andrew Sutcliffe, Steam; The Untold Story of America's First Great Invention
(New York, 2004).
Edward J. Renehan, Jr., Dark Genius of Wall Street; The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould,
King of the Robber Barons (New York, 2005).
Roger Horowitz, Putting Meat on the Table; Taste, Technology, Transformation
(Baltimore, 2005).
Lisa Jacobson, Raising Consumers; Children & the American Mass Market in the Early
Twentieth Century (New York, 2004).
Mitchell Zuckoff, Ponzi's Scheme; The True Story of a Financial Legend (New York, 2005).
*Textbook.
Schedule: Topics Readings
Aug. 28-
Introduction
31
Empire Building
Sept. 4 L A B O R D A Y
Sept. 7 Colonial Trade & Trouble
The Hamiltonian Vision Bernstein
Sept. 11-14 Land Policies & Development
Legal Foundations Sutcliffe
Early Industrialism
Sept. 18-21 Transportation Revolution
Agricultural Productivity
Sept. 25 Free vs. Slave Labor
Economic Effects of the Civil War
Sept.
28
F
I R S T E X A M I N A T I O N
Oct. 2-5 Railway Age
Morgan & Co.
Oct.
9
C O L U M B U S D A Y
Oct. 10-12 Urbanism as a Way of Life
Captains of Industry
Labor Conflicts & Settlements Renehan
Oct. 16-19 The Multi-Ethnic Labor Force
Oct. 23-26 Looking Outward Anew
Anti-trust & Merger Mania Horowitz
Oct.
30-
Origins of the Federal Reserve System
Nov.
2
Wartime Mobilization
Nov.
6
S E C O N D E X A M I N A T I O N
Nov. 9 Consumerism, 1920s Style
The Mystery of 1929, & After
What was "New" in the New Deal
Nov. 13-16 The Union Drive
Wartime Mobilization II
Nov. 20
The Keynesian Idea & its Critics
Postwar
Labor Management
Realignments
White Collar Organization Men
The Postwar Female Labor Force
Nov.
23
T H A N K S G I V I N G
Nov. 27-30 The 1950s/60s Macroeconomy Jacobson
Unemployment/Inflation Concerns
The Great Society & its Critics
Nixonomics Zuckoff
The Oil Shock & its Aftereffects
Dec. 4-7 Capitalist Renaissance
The Digital Age
Post-Industrialism: the Akron Story
The Post-Cold War Global Economy
America
Regit
Dec. 11 F I N A L E X A M I N A T I O N , P A R T O N E
Dec. 13 F I N A L E X A M I N A T I O N , P A R T T W O