The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900

The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900
ISBN-10
0521772338
ISBN-13
9780521772334
Category
History
Pages
574
Language
English
Published
2000-11-06
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Richard Franklin Bensel

Description

In the last decades of the 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 economic development and democracy coexisted in the United States during industrialization.

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