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The political economy of American industrialization, 1877-1900 /
"In the late nineteenth century, the United States underwent an extremely rapid industrial expansion that moved the nation into the front ranks of the world economy. At the same time, the nation maintained democratic institutions as the primary means of allocating political offices and power. A...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In the late nineteenth century, the United States underwent an extremely rapid industrial expansion that moved the nation into the front ranks of the world economy. At the same time, the nation maintained democratic institutions as the primary means of allocating political offices and power. As the combination of robust democratic institutions and rapid industrialization is rarely found in world history, this book explains how development and democracy coexisted in the United States during industrialization. While most of the current literature falls into two discrete categories - studies of electoral politics emphasizing the local basis of party competition and purely economic analyses of industrialization - this book synthesizes politics and economics by stressing the Republican party's role as a developmental agent in national politics, the primacy of the three great developmental policies (the gold standard, the protective tariff, and the national market) in state and local politics, and the impact of uneven regional development on the construction of national political coalitions in Congress and presidential elections."--Jacket |
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| Notas: | Includes index. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 549 pages) : maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139939362 113993936X 9780511665004 0511665008 052177604X 9780521776042 1139930869 9781139930864 1139929631 9781139929639 1139937057 9781139937054 113993385X 9781139933858 051183795X 9780511837951 |