Mansel G. Blackford and K. Austin Kerr (1994). Business Enterprise in American History (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, [3rd ed.]). Corporations--United States--History; Business enterprises--United States--History.

Stuart W. Bruchey (1968). The Roots of American Economic Growth, 1607-1861; an Essay in Social Causation (New York, NY: Harper & Row, 234 p.). United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.

Richard Buel, Jr. (1998). In Irons: Britain's Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 397 p.). Professor Emeritus of History (Wesleyan University). Great Britain. Royal Navy--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States--History--18th century; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Naval operations, British; United States--Commerce--History--18th century.

Thomas Carson, editor; Mary Bonk, associate editor (1999). Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History (Detroit, MI: Gale Group, 2 vols.). United States--Economic conditions--Encyclopedias.

Thomas C. Cochran (1972). New York in the Confederation; an Economic Study (Clifton, NJ: A.M. Kelley, 220 p. United States. Continental Congress; New York (State)--Politics and government--1775-1783; New York (State)--Economic conditions; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance; United States--Politics and government--1783-1789.

--- (1981). Frontiers of Change: Early Industrialism in America. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 179 p.). Industries--United States--History; Technological innovations--United States--History; United States--Economic conditions--To 1865; United States--Social conditions--To 1865. New view of the Industrial Revolution in America. Industrialization as a culturally inspired change.

eds. Thomas C. Cochran [and] Thomas B. Brewer (1966). Views of American Economic Growth: The Agricultural Era (Volume One). (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2 vols.). United States--Economic conditions--Addresses, essays, lectures. 

Peter A. Coclanis (1989). The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920 (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 370 p.). Charleston Region (S.C.)--Economic conditions.

John E. Crowley (1993). The Privileges of Independence: Neomercantilism and the American Revolution. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 215 p.). Mercantile system--United States--History--18th century; Mercantile system--Great Britain--History--18th century; United States--Politics and government--1775-1783; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--18th century; Great Britain--Colonies--Commerce--History--18th century; Great Britain--Colonies--America--Commerce; United States--Commerce--Great Britain; Great Britain--Commerce--United States; United States--Commerce--History--18th century.

Robert Abraham East (1938). Business Enterprise in the American Revolutionary Era. (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 387 p.). United States--Economic conditions; United States--Commerce--History; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

ed. Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman (1986). Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 884 p.). North America--Economic conditions; United States--Economic conditions. Studies in income and wealth.

--- (1996). The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, vol. 1, The Colonial Era. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 500 p.). United States--Economic conditions.

Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman (1974). Time on the Cross; The Economics of American Negro Slavery. (New York, NY: Norton, 304 p. [orig. pub. 1974]). Charles R. Walgreen Professor of American Institutions, Director for the Center for Population Economics (University of Chicago) and Winner - Nobel Prize for Economics in 1993; Professor of Economics and History (University of Rochester). Slavery--Economic aspects--United States; Slavery--United States--Econometric models.  

David W. Galenson (1986). Traders, Planters, and Slaves: Market Behavior in Early English America. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 230 p.). Royal African Company--History; Slave-trade--West Indies, British--History; Slavery--Economic aspects--West Indies, British; United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Peter J. George (1982). The Emergence of Industrial America: Strategic Factors in American Economic Growth since 1870 (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 242 p.). Industries--United States--History; United States--Economic conditions.

ed. Claudia Goldin and Hugh Rockoff (1992). Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic History: A Volume to Honor Robert W. Fogel (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 491 p.). Labor market--United States--History--20th century--Congresses; Capital market--United States--History--20th century--Congresses; United States--Economic conditions--Congresses.

John D. Haeger (1981). The Investment Frontier: New York Businessmen and the Economic Development of the Old Northwest (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 311 p.). Bronson, Arthur; Butler, Charles, 1802-1897; Investments--West (U.S.)--History--19th century; Capitalists and financiers--New York (State)--History--19th century; Capitalists and financiers--West (U.S.)--History--19th century; West (U.S.)--Economic conditions--19th century.

--- (1991). John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 365 p.). Astor, John Jacob, 1763-1848; Businesspeople--United States--Biography; United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.

Robert L. Heilbroner (1994). The Economic Transformation of America: 1600 to the Present. (Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace, 416 p. [4th ed.]). Industrialization--United States--History; United States--Economic conditions.

Robert L. Heilbroner, Aaron Singer (1994). The Economic Transformation of America to 1865. (Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 148 p.). Industrialization--United States--History; United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.

--- (1994). The Economic Transformation of America Since 1865. (Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 268 p.). United States--Economic conditions--1865-1918; United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945; United States--Economic conditions--1945-.

--- (1999). The Economic Transformation of America: 1600 to the Present. (Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 390 p. [4th ed.]). Industrialization--United States--History; United States--Economic conditions. 

ed. Ralph W. Hidy and Paul E. Cawein (1967). The Formative Era of American Enterprise (Boston, MA: Heath). United States--Economic conditions; United States--Commerce--History. The Virginia Company, 1606-1624, by J. B. Forry.--Boston merchants and the Puritan ethic, 1630-1691, by R. W. Sprague.--The factory system, 1789-1850, by J. S. Hazlett.--Glossary.

Brooke Hindle and Steven Lubar (1986). Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution, 1790-1860 (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 309 p.). Technological innovations--Economic aspects--United States--History; Industries--United States--History; United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.

James L. Huston (1987). The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War. (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 315 p.). Depressions--1857--United States; United States--Economic conditions--To 1865; United States--Politics and government--1857-1861.

--- (2003). Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 394 p.). Slavery--Economic aspects--United States--History; Right of property--United States--History; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Economic aspects.   

Stephen Innes (1995). Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England. (New York, NY: Norton, 405 p.). Professor of History (University of Virginia). Work ethic--New England--History; Entrepreneurship--New England--History; Capitalism--New England--History; New England--Economic conditions. 

Arthur M. Johnson and Barry E. Supple (1967). Boston Capitalists and Western Railroads; a Study in the Nineteenth-Century Railroad Investment Process (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 392 p.). Railroads--United States--Finance.

Eds. Marianne Johnson, Steven G. Medema, Warren J. Samuels (2003). Foundations of the American Economy: The American Colonies from Inception to Independence. (Brookfield, VT: Pickering & Chatto, 5 vols.). Economics--United States--History; United States--Economic conditions--To 1865. Contents: v. 1. From theocracy to secular, materialist commercial society -- v. 2. Individualism and the structure of power -- v. 3. Colonial money, credit and debt -- v. 4. Mercantilism and colonialism, pt. 1 -- v. 5. Mercantilism and colonialism, pt. 2.

Alice Hanson Jones (1980). Wealth of a Nation To Be: the American Colonies on the Eve of the Revolution. (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 494 p.). Wealth--United States--History; United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.

Edward S. Kaplan (1999). The Bank of the United States and the American Economy (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 172 p.). Bank of the United States (1791-1811)--History; Bank of the United States (1816-1836)--History; United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.

Robert M. La Follette (1973). The Making of America. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 3 vols. [orig. pub. 1906]). United States--Economic conditions; United States--Social conditions--To 1865; United States--Social conditions--1865-1918. Incomplete Contents: --v. 3. Industry and finance.

Ed. Cathy Matson (2006). The Economy of Early America: Historical Perspectives & New Directions. (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 380 p.). Professor of History (University of Delaware). United States--Economic conditions--To 1865; United States--Economic conditions--1865-1918; Great Britain--Colonies--America--Economic conditions. Cultural and intellectual studies, political economy, and social history.

John J. McCusker & Russell R. Menard (1985). The Economy of British America, 1607-1789. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Caroilina Press, 485 p.). United States--Economic conditions--To 1865; Great Britain--Colonies--America--Economic conditions.

eds. John J. McCusker and Kenneth Morgan (2000). The Early Modern Atlantic Economy. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 369 p.). Great Britain--Colonies--Commerce--History--18th century; Great Britain--Commerce--America--History--18th century; America--Commerce--Great Britain--History--18th century; France--Colonies--Commerce--History--17th century; France--Commerce--America--History--17th century; America--Commerce--France--History--17th century.

Ed. Steven G. Medema (2006). The Role of Government in the History of Economic Thought. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 376 p.). Professor of Economics (University of Colorado at Denver). Economics--History--20th century; Economics--History; Government policy--United States. History of the evolution of the relationship between governments and economies.

Eds. Steven G. Medema and Warren J. Samuels (2001). Historians of Economics and Economic Thought: The Construction of Disciplinary Memory. (New York, NY: Routledge, 360 p.). Economics--History--20th century; Economics--History; Economics--Historiography; Economists--History; Economists--Biography. Summarizes the work of key historians of economics and attempts to quantify their impact.

Curtis Putnam Nettels (1962). The Emergence of a National Economy, 1775-1815. (New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 424 p.). United States--Economic conditions.

--- (1964). The Money Supply of the American Colonies Before 1720. (New York, NY: A. M. Kelley, 300 p. [orig. pub. 1934]). Currency question--United States; United States--Commerce--History; Great Britain--Colonies--America--Financial questions; Great Britain--Colonies--Commerce; United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; United States--Economic conditions.

Douglass C. North (1961). The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 304 p.). United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.

John B. Pearse (1970). A Concise History of the Iron Manufacture of the American Colonies up to the Revolution, and of Pennsylvania until the Present Time (New York, NY: B. Franklin, 282 p. [Reprint 1876 ed.]). Iron industry and trade--United States; Iron industry and trade--Pennsylvania.

Edwin H. Perkins (1988). The Economy of Colonial America (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 251 p. [2nd ed.]). United States -- Economic conditions -- To 1865.

Jonathan Prude (1983). The Coming of Industrial Order: Town and Factory Life in rural Massachusetts, 1810-1860. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 364 p.). Industries--Massachusetts--History--19th century.

Alvin Rabushka (2008). Taxation in Colonial America. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 968 p.). David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution (Stanford University). Taxation--United States--History--17th century; Taxation--United States--History--18th century; United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. How colonists strove to minimize, avoid, evade British, local taxation; how they used tax incentives to foster settlement; systems of public finance they created to reduce taxation; how they gained control over taxes through elected representatives in colonial legislatures; external taxes imposed on colonists by Britain, Netherlands, Sweden; internal direct taxes (poll, income taxes); indirect taxes (duties, tonnage fees, county and town taxes, church and education taxes, bounties, other charges); means of payment (gold coins, agricultural commodities, wampum, furs); compares tax systems, burdens among colonies, with Britain.

Roger L. Ransom (1981). Coping with Capitalism: The Economic Transformation of the United States, 1776-1980 (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 186 p.). United States--Economic conditions.

Roger L. Ransom, Richard Sutch (2001). One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 458 p. [2nd ed.]). Professor of History and Economics (University of California, Riverside); Distinguished Professor of Economics (University of California, Riverside). Afro-Americans--Southern States--Economic conditions; Southern States--Economic conditions; Southern States--History--1865-1951. Single best introduction to the economy of the early postemancipation, postbellum, economy of the South.

Heather Cox Richardson (1997). The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies During the Civil War. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 342 p.). Associate Professor, Department of History (University of Massachusetts). Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--History; United States--Economic policy--To 1933; United States--Economic conditions--To 1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

W. J. Rorabaugh (1986). The Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age in America. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 270 p.). Apprentices--United States--History; United States--Social life and customs--1783-1865.

Arthur M. Schlesinger (1918). The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763-1776. (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 647 p.). United States. Continental Congress; United States--Commerce--History; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes.

Charles G. Sellers (1991). The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 502 p.). Capitalism--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century; Representative government and representation--United States--History--19th century; Democracy--History--19th century; United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.

James F. Shepherd and Gary M. Walton (1972). Shipping, Maritime Trade, and the Economic Development of Colonial North America. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 255 p.). Shipping--United States--History; United States--Commerce--History; United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Walter Buckingham Smith and Arthur Harrison Cole (1969). Fluctuations in American Business, 1790-1860. (New York, NY: Russell & Russell, 195 p. [orig. pub.1935]). Prices--United States--History; United States--Economic conditions--To 1865. 

Robert Sobel (1971). Conquest and Conscience: The 1840's. (New York, NY: Crowell, 330 p.). United States--History--1815-1861; United States--Economic conditions--To 1865; United States--Social conditions--To 1865.

Douglas Steeples and David O. Whitten (1998). Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 261 p.). Depressions--1893--United States; United States--Politics and government--1893-1897; United States--Economic conditions--1865-1918.

Edwin Tunis (1965). Colonial Craftsmen and the Beginnings of American Industry (Cleveland, OH: World Pub. Co., 159 p.). Technology--United States--History; Industries--United States--History; Decorative arts, Early American; Technology--United States--History; Industries--United States--History; Decorative arts, Early American; United States--Social life and customs--To 1775; United States--Social life and customs--To 1775. 

Gary M. Walton and James F. Shepherd (1979). The Economic Rise of Early America (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 226 p.). United States--Commerce--History; Great Britain--Colonies--America--Commerce.

Chester W. Wright (1941). Economic History of the United States. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1120 p.). United States--Economic conditions.

Robert E. Wright (2002). The Wealth of Nations Rediscovered: Integration and Expansion in American Financial Markets, 1780-1850. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, p.). Finance--United States--History; Wealth--United States--History; United States--Economic policy; United States--Economic conditions.

--- (2002). Hamilton Unbound: Finance and the Creation of the American Republic. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, p.). Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804; Finance--United States--History; Finance, Public--United States--History; United States--Politics and government--1783-1809.

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