Lehrman American Studies Center

Articles

• The Great Divergence: Wages and Prices in Europe, 1375-1913 by R. C. Allen
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• ‘Baubles of Britain’: The American and Consumer Revolutions of the Eighteenth Century by T.H. Breen
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• On The Political Character of Property in Locke by Harvey C. Mansfield
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• Economic Reform and the Process of Global Integration by J. D. Sachs and A. Warner
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• Mass Migration to Distant Southern Shores: Argentina and Australia, 1870-1939 by A. Taylor
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Books

• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber, translated by Talcott Parsons
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  This well-known text argues that the Protestant ethic peculiarly enabled and encouraged the development of Western capitalism.

• We the People : The Economic Origins of the Constitution (Library of Conservative Thought) by Forrest McDonald
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• The Economic History of Latin America since Independence by Victor Bulmer
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• Latin America and the World Economy since 1800 by John H. Coatsworth and Alan M. Taylor
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  Economic and institutional trajectories in nineteenth-century Latin America / John H. Coatsworth -- Property rights and land conflict: a comparison of settlement of the US Wester and Brazilian Amazon frontiers / Lee J. Alston, Gary D. Libecap, and Bernardo Mueller…

• Economic Reform in Latin America by Harry Costin and Hector Vanolli
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Transcripts or Manuscripts

• Senate Speech on Jackson's Veto of the Bank Bill
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Videos

• The Commanding Heights: The Battle For The World Economy ( PBS )
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  (from Amazon.com): The history and impact of the new global economy are made clear--and compelling--in Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy. This three-part, six-hour documentary does an astonishingly thorough job of dissecting and explaining macroeconomics and their current political…

Websites

• Oxford Latin American History Database ( Oxford University )
  • 5/5 Stars

  The Oxford Latin American Economic History Database (OxLAD) contains statistical series for a wide range of economic and social indicators covering twenty countries in the region for the period 1900-2000. Its purpose is to provide economic and social historians worldwide…

• Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank, 1791 by Thomas Jefferson
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• Daniel Webster and the War on the Second Bank of the United States by Paul Rastatter
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• Speech on President Jackson’s Veto of the Bank Bill in Senate, July 10, 1832 by Henry Clay
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