Economic History                                  E. Fones-Wolf
Spring 1991                            West Virginia University

       TOPICS IN THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

Requirements:

          Students are expected to do all the required reading and
to participate in class discussion.  There will be a midterm and
final and two papers (5-7 pages) based on primary materials.

Books

Douglas North, Growth and Welfare
Peter Lindert and Jeff Williamson, American Inequality
Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom
R.W. Fogel and S.L. Engerman, Time on the Cross
Frances Piven and Richard Cloward, Poor Peoples' Movements
Alfred Chandler, The Visible Hand

* - recommended readings
          JEH - Journal of Economic History

The (De)peopling of America

     Alfred Crosby, The Columbian Exchange, ch. 2-3
               *ch. 1
     William McNeill - Plagues and Peoples - ch. 5.
     David Galenson - White Servitude in Colonial America - ch. 1,
8-9.
     Robert Fogel and Stanely Engerman - Time on the Cross, Vol. 
     I, pp. 13-29.
     Edmund S. Morgan - American Slavery, American Freedom - ch. 
     6-12, 15.
          Richard Hofstadter - America at 1750 - ch. 5.
        *Kenneth Sokoloff and Georgia Villaflor  "The Early
     Achievement of Modern         Stature in America" Social
     Science History (Fall 1982).

     II.       Post Revolutionary Economic Growth
     Paul David "Growth of Real Product" - JEH (June 1967).
        Claudia Goldin and Kenneth Soholoff "Women, Children and
        Industrialization" - JEH (Dec. 1982).
        Robert Zevin "The Growth of Cotton Textile Production
        After 1815" in Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman -
        Reinterpretation of American Economic History - pp. 122-
        147.
        Peter Lindert and Jeff Williamson - American Inequality -
        ch. 3-4, 7.
        Bruce Laurie - Working People of Philadelphia - ch. 1.

III.    Slavery and Its Aftermath
        Kenneth Stamp - Peculiar Institutions - ch. 2-4.
        Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman - Time on the Cross,
        Vol. I, ch. 2-3, ch. 6 (pp. 191-209), *ch. 4.
        Richard Easterlin "Regional Income Trends" in Seymour
        Harris (ed.) - American Economic History
        Claudia Goldin and Frank Lewis "The Economic Cost of the
        American Civil War", JEH (June 1975), pp. 299-326.
       *Paul David (et.al.) Reckoning with Slavery.
       *Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman "Explaining the Relative
       Efficiency of Slave Agriculture" - American Economic Review 
       (June 1977).
       *Roger Ransom and Richard Sutch - One Kind of Freedom.
       *Special issue of Explorations in Economic History 16:1
       (Janm. 1979).

IV.    Rise of Big Business and Modern Class Conflict
       Alfred Chandler - The Visible Hand - Intro. ch. 2, 7-11,
       *rest of book.
       Michael Reich "Development of the Wage Labor Force" pp.
       179-184 in Richard Edwardset.al. (ed.) - The Capitalist
       System.
       Harry Braverman - Labor and Monopoly Capital, ch. 4-6.
       David Brody - Steelworkers in America - ch. 3, 7, 12.
       Richard Edwards - Contested Terrain - ch. 
      *Lindert and Williamson - American Inequality - ch. 10-13.
       Frances Pivan and Richard Cloward - Poor Peoples'
       Movements, ch. 2-3.
       W. Elliot Brownlee and Mary Brownlee - Women in the
       American Economy, pp. 1-40.
       Elyce Rotella "Womens labor Force Participation"
       Exploration in Economic History 17:2 (April 1980) pp. 95-
       117.

   V.  Depression, War, and the Welfare-Warfare State
       Peter Temin - Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great
       Depression?  - ch. 3, 5-6, *rest of the book.
     *Milton Friedman and Ana Schwartz - A Monetary History of the
   United States, ch. 7.
       E. Cary Brown "Fiscal Policies in the Thirties" - American
       Economic Review (Dec. 1956) pp. 857-79.
       Frances Piven and Richard Cloward - Regulating the Poor -
       ch. 2-5, *Part III.
       Paul Conkin - The New Deal - ch. 3.
       Seymour Melmen - The Permanent War Economy - ch. 1, 2, 4.