The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Vol. 1
Subtitle: The Colonial Era
Contributors: Stanley L. Engerman (Editor); Robert E. Gallman (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 26, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780521394420
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Economics; Economic History; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Canada; USA; Economic Conditions; History / United States / General; United States - Economic conditions
First sentence: The economic history of North America began thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans, as the ancestors of modern Indians dispersed over the continent to nearly every kind of environmental setting and then, over time, elaborated and modified their various ways of life.