The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay

This volume collects Professor Parker''s major writings on American agricultural and industrial history including some essays not previously published. Taken as a whole these essays give an account of why and how the United States grew rich in the nineteenth century as well as a background against which to judge the present position of the economy and its international position. Professor Parker focuses on the nineteenth-century experience of the three regions of the United States--northeast south and midwest and shows wherein lay the sources of their wealth and growth into a flourishing nation. A final chapter looking at European development from an American perspective is especially timely in view of the recent movements toward integration and democratization in the mother continent.