Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Contributors ix
4. Editors’ Introduction xv
5. 1. The Stanford Tradition in Economic History 1
6. Part one. Evolutionary Processes in Economics
7. 2. Natural Resources and Economic Outcomes 27
8. 3. The Institutionalization of Science in Eu rope, 1650– 1850 51
9. 4. The Fundamental Impact of the Slave Trade on African Economies 86
10. 5. Similar Societies, Different Solutions: U.S. Indian Policy in Light of Australian Policy toward Aboriginal Peoples 111
11. Part two. Spatial Processes and Comparative Development
12. 6. Financial Market and Industry Structure: A Comparison of the Banking and Textile Industries in Boston and Philadelphia in the Early Nineteenth Century 141
13. 7. Railroads and the Rise of the Factory: Evidence for the United States, 1850– 1870 162
14. 8. Productivity Growth and the Regional Dynamics of Antebellum Southern Development 180
15. 9. Banking on the Periphery: The Cotton South, Systemic Seasonality, and the Limits of National Banking Reform 214
16. 10. Rural Credit and Mobility in India 243
17. Part three. Revolution in Labor Markets
18. 11. Labor- Market Regimes in U.S. Economic History 277
19. 12. The Political Economy of Progress: Lessons from the Causes and Consequences of the New Deal 311
20. 13. Teachers and Tipping Points: Historical Origins of the Teacher Quality Crisis 336
21. 14. Inequality and Institutions in Twentieth- Century America 357
22. 15. The Unexpected Long- Run Impact of the Minimum Wage: An Educational Cascade 387
23. 16. America’s First Culinary Revolution, or How a Girl from Gopher Prairie Came to Dine on Eggs Fooyung 419
24. Appendix: Selected Publications of Gavin Wright 447
25. Index 451