Economic development of the North Atlantic Community : historical introduction to modern economics / Dudley Dillard.

Part I. Roots of the Atlantic economy -- 1. The dynamics of capitalism, 3 -- 2. Expansion of commerce in late medieval Europe, 15 -- 3. Industry in transition, 26 -- 4. Decline of the manorial system, 51 -- 5. Beginnings of capitalism, 72 -- Part II. Founding the Atlantic economy -- 6. The accumulation of capital in foreign trade, 95 -- 7. Early industrial capitalism, 112 -- 8. Private property in land: English enclosures and capitalistic agriculture, 129 -- 9. The mobilization of money capital: banking and credit, 150 -- 10. Mercantilism, 163 -- 11. British mercantilism and colonial economic development, 179 -- 12. The decline of mercantilism and the American Revolution, 196 -- 13. National beginnings under a political and economic union, 215 -- Part III. industrializing the Atlantic economy -- 14. The industrial revolution, 235 -- 15. British industrial leadership in the nineteenth century, 259 -- 16. Development of industrial capitalism in France, 281 -- 17. German industrial development during the nineteenth century, 304 -- 18. The take-off period in American capitalism, 318 -- 19. Planter vs. Industrial capitalism and the American civil war, 338 -- 20. The age of mass production, 363 -- 21. Money and the mobilization of capital in the age of mass production, 375 -- 22. Growth of organized business in Germany and England, 390 -- 23. The growth of organized business in the United States, 406 -- 24. The growth of organized labor in Europe, 431 -- 25. The American labor movement, 444 -- 26. Agriculture in the age of mass production, 463 -- 27. Economic imperialism and the development of backward areas, 486 -- Part IV. integrating the Atlantic economy -- 28. Economic consequences of the First World War, 507 -- 29. Interwar Europe I: growth and stagnation in industry 523 30. Interwar Europe II: crisis in international trade and Changing national economic systems, 538 -- 31. Interwar growth and stagnation in the American economy: the 1920's, prosperity decade, 562 -- 32. Interwar growth and stagnation: the great depression, 585 -- 33. Russian economic development, 612 -- 34. Postwar recovery and the balance-of-payments crisis in Europe, 639 -- 35. European integration under the common market, 653 -- 36. The United States economy in the early postwar period, 669 -- 37. The United States economy in the later postwar period, 684 -- 38. The economic basis of a great society, 709 -- Índex, 731.