Economic History of the United States¹>

Abstract

IN 1904 work was commenced upon an extended study of the economic history of the United States, under the auspices of the Department of Economics and Sociology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The subject-matter of this study was divided into twelve departments, and the two volumes before us represent the contribution to learning of the Department of Domestic and Foreign Commerce. They include six parts, dealing respectively with “American Commerce to 1789,” “The International Commerce of the United States,” “The Coastwise Trade,” “The Foreign Trade of the United States since 1789,” “American Fisheries,” and “Government Aid and Commercial Policv,” which are based, in part, upon monographs, some of which have not been published. Vol. ii. contains a classified bibliography which runs to 24 pp., and vol. i. gives 10 pp. to notes and a bibliography concerning American Colonial commerce; there are three important railway and three usetul fishery maps.