Books in the Cambridge Economic History of the United States series

This volume surveys the economic history of British North America, including Canada and the Caribbean, and of the early United States, from early settlement by Europeans to the end of the 18th century. The book includes chapters on the economic history of Native Americans (to 1860), and also on the European and African backgrounds to colonization.

Volume II surveys the economic history of the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean during the nineteenth century. Five main themes frame the economic changes described in the volume: intercontinental movements of labor and capital; westward expansion; slavery and its aftermath; industrialization; and the social consequences of economic growth.

Volume III surveys the economic history of the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean during the twentieth century. Its chapters trace the century's major events, notably the Great Depression and two world wars, as well as its long-term trends, such as changing technology and the rise of the corporate economy.