Globalization and Education or American Economic History

Globalization and Education: Critical Perspectives

Author: N Burbules

In Globalization and Education: Critical Perspectives, an outstanding group of international contributors explore the increasingly important dimensions of globalization as it affects educational policy and practice in nation-states around the world. Changing conditions in a globalized world-including travel, international media, transnational capitalism, and the role of global organizations and institutions-all have profound implications for the formation and implementation of education policy. Addressing such issues as feminism, multiculturalism, and new technology, this collection of original essays will broaden the context in which educational policy decisions are viewed.
Contributors: Michael W. Apple, Jill Blackmore, Nicholas C. Burbules, Juan Ramón Capella, Luiza Cortesão, Greg Dimitriadis, Patrick Fitzsimmons, Douglas Kellner, Bob Lingard, Allan Luke, Carmen Luke, James Marshall, Cameron McCarthy, Raymond A. Morrow, Michael Peters, Thomas S. Popkewitz, Fazal Rizvi, Stephen R. Stoer, and Carlos Alberto Torres.

Interesting book: Spice Merchants Daughter or Foragers Harvest

American Economic History

Author: Jonathan Hughes

 

American Economic History, Seventh Edition, integrates the latest scholarly research and data with the most important lessons from four centuries of economic, political, and social developments in U.S. history. Hughes and Cain take a chronological approach to the course and leave students with a clear understanding of how economic history can inform issues facing our society today.

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“This is an excellent introductory textbook that is suitable for students with minimal background in economics. It is especially strong in the coverage of the evolution of the American legal system, from the English heritage through the new ‘quality of life regulations’ of the 1960s.”

— Tom Geraghty, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

 

“A great feature of this text is that it is fun to read. The story of American economic history is well told here!”

— Simone Wegge, College of Staten Island

 

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Features of the Seventh Edition

• Extensive data update, incorporating the most recent release of Historical Statistics of the United States
• New coverage of prohibition and its effects on the economy in the early 20^th century
• Inclusion of the latest research, such as the contention that the 1930s were the most productive decade for the U.S.,and a comparison of the 1920s and 1990s
• New coverage of the Employment Act of 1946, the early emergence of American industry and production, and the antebellum puzzle

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Pt. 1	The Colonial Period, 1607-1783	1
1	Overseas Empire	3
2	Colonial Development	24
3	America on the Eve of Revolution	43
4	Gaining Independence	62
Pt. 2	The National Period and Constitutional Crisis, 1783-1861	83
5	Westward Expansion	85
6	Population and Labor Force	103
7	Law and the Rise of Classical American Capitalism	127
8	Transportation, Internal Improvements, and Urbanization	141
9	Agricultural Expansion: The Conflict of Two Systems on the Land	163
10	The Debate over Slavery	182
11	The Early Industrial Sector	200
12	The Financial System and the International Economy	224
Pt. 3	The Rise of an Industrial Society, 1861-1914	251
13	Economic Effects of the Civil War	253
14	Railroads and Economic Development	273
15	Post-Civil War Agriculture	290
16	Population Growth and the Atlantic Migration	309
17	Industrialization and Urban Growth	325
18	Big Business and Government Intervention	354
19	Financial Developments, 1863-1919	372
20	The Giant Economy and Its International Relations	392
21	Labor and the Law	409
Pt. 4	The Expansion of Federal Power, 1914-1945	425
22	The Command Economy Emerges: World War I	427
23	"Normalcy": 1919-1929	440
24	The Great Depression	460
25	The New Deal	483
26	The "Prosperity" of Wartime	503
Pt. 5	Brave New World? 1945-Present	519
27	From World War II to the New Frontier	521
28	Labor and the Tertiary Sector	535
29	Industrial Developments	557
30	From the New Frontier to Reaganomics and Beyond: 1960-1995	581
31	Does Our Past Have a Future?	602
	Glossary	611
	Credits	616
	Name Index	618
	Subject Index	626