1815-1850: Business and the Economy: Publications
1815-1850: Business and the Economy: Publications
Nathan Appleton, Labor, its relations in Europe and the United States Compared (Boston: Eastburn’s Press, 1844);
Appleton, Remarks on currency and banking: having reference to the present derangement of the circulating medium in the United States (Boston: Little, Brown, 1841)—one of antebellum America’s biggest capitalists gives his opinion of the economic situation after the Panic of 1837;
Henry William Ellsworth, Valley of the Upper Wabash, Indiana with hints on its agricultural advantages: Plan of a dwelling, estimates of cultivationj, and notices of labor-saving machines (New York: Pratt, Robinson, 1838)—the son of one of America’s biggest land speculators, Patent Office commissioner Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, published this treatise on the prospects of prairie farming on the eve of its takeoff;
William M. Gouge, A Short History of Paper-Making and Banking in the United States (New York: B & S Collins, 1835)—a good contemporary history;
McClane Report on Manufactures, Documents Relative to Manufactures in the United States, House Document No. 308, 22d Congress, 1st Session, 2 volumes (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1833)—a window into the early years of American industrialization;
James Montgomery, A Practical Detail of Cotton Manufacturers of the United States (Glasgow: J. Niven; New York: Appleton, 1840)—an account by a British expert on the industry.