MANHATTANVILLE
COLLEGE
History/Economics 2024 Fall, 2002
American Economic History Mr. Bowling
E. Albano
Requirements:
1. Attendance.
2. Participation.
3. Readings.
4. Successful
completion of three examinations.
Books:
*Aaron Singer and Robert L. Heilbroner, The Economic Transformation of
America: 1600 to the Present (New York,
4th ed., 1998).
Thomas M. Doerflinger, A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and
Economic
Development in Revolutiionary Philadelphia (Chapel
Hill, 1986).
David Blanke, Sowing
the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took
Hold
in the Rural Midwest (Athens, O., 2000).
Sarah H. Gordon, Passage
to Union: How the Railroads Transformed American Life,
1829-1929
(Chicago, 1998).
Elmus Wickar, The
Banking Panics of the Great Depression (Cambridge,
2001).
John Brooks, The
Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall
Street’s
Bullish 60s (New York, 1999).
Rudolph J. R. Peritz, Competition Policy in America; History, Rhetoric,
Law (New York, 1996).
*Text.
Students are advised to read and master the contents of this book
as soon
as practicable.
Schedule: Topics
Readings
Aug. 27-30 Introduction
Empire
Building
Sept. 3-6 Colonial
Trade & Trouble
The
Hamiltonian Vision Doerflinger
Sept. 10-13 Land
Policies & Development
Legal
Foundations Blanke
Early
Industrialism
Sept. 17-20 Transportation
Revolution
Agricultural
Productivity
Sept. 24 F
I R S T E X A M I N A T I O N
Sept. 27 Free
vs. Slave Labor
Economics
Effects of the Civil War
Oct. 1-4 Railway
Age
Morgan
& Co. Gordon
Urbanism
as a Way of Life
Oct. 8-11 Captains
of Industry Wickar
Labor
Conflicts and Settlements
The
Multi-Ethnic Labor Force
Oct. 15-18 Looking
Outward Anew
Antitrust
& Merger Mania
Origins
of the Federal Reserve
Oct. 22-25 Wartime
Mobilization I
Postwar
Adjustment Troubles
Oct. 29 S
E C O N D E X A M I N A T I O N
Nov. 1 Consumerism,
1920s Style
The
Mystery of 1929 & After Brooks
What
was “New” about the New Deal
Nov. 5-8 The
Union Drive
Wartime
Mobilization II
The
Keynesian Idea and its Critics
Nov. 12-15 Postwar
Labor/Management
Realignments
White
Collar Organization Men
Nov. 19-22 The
50s/60s Macroeconomy
Unemployment/Inflation
Concerns
The
Great Society & its Critics
Nov. 26 Nixonomics Peritz
The
Oil Shock & its Aftereffects
Capitalist
Renaissance
Nov. 29 T
H A N K S G I V I N G H O L I D A Y
Dec. 3-6 The
Digital Age
The
Post-Cold War Global Economy
America Regit