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Subject(s)

• Prices—United States—History [Browse]
• Wages—United States—History [Browse]
• Purchasing power—United States—History [Browse]
• Cost and standard of living—United States—History [Browse]

Related name

• Smith, Tony, 1969- [Browse]
• Gale Group [Browse]

Series

Gale virtual reference library

Summary note

This handbook provides records of the actual prices of thousands of items that consumers purchased from the Colonial Era to the Civil War; pricing data from 1600 to 1865. A useful tool for all high school, public and academic library reference collections.

Notes

• "A Universal Reference Book."
• "[This is] the first edition of The Value of a Dollar, 1600-1865. This book both parallels and compliments its popular older brother The Value of a Dollar, 1860-2004"--P. [i].

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-442) and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi : Gale. Available via World Wide Web.

Original version

Original: 436, [21] p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

System details

Mode of access: Internet.

Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1 1600-1749: The development of the colonies
• Chapter 2 1750-1774: The run up to the war of American independence
• Chapter 3 1775-1799: The revolution births a debt-plagued nation
• Chapter 4 1800-1824: Another war, manufacturing, self-sufficiency and prosperity
• Chapter 5 1825-1849: Western expansion, canal transportation and American confidence
• Chapter 6 1850-1865: Railroads, slavery and a nation at war with itself
• Bibliography
• Index.

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ISBN

• 9781592371693 (electronic book)
• 1592371698 (electronic book)
• 1592370942

OCLC

891677636

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