ABSTRACT
MOST comprehensive historical works on the period 1815-1860 do not emphasize the economic side of American historical development. However, John Bach McMaster, A History of the People of the United States (8 vols., New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1883-1913), Vols. 4-8, gives much detailed material on economic conditions, culled largely from newspaper sources. Edward Channing, A History of the United States (6 vols., New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905-1925), Vols. 4-6, though generally slighting economic aspects, is occasionally excellent on particular topics. For the more limited period covered, Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947), includes much on economic conditions. Though they emphasize social history, much material on economic conditions and industrial development may be found in three volumes in Arthur Meier Schlesinger and Dixon Ryan Fox, eds., A History of American Life (12 vols., New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927-1944): John Allen Krout and Dixon Ryan Fox, The Completion of Independence, 1790-1830; Carl Russell Fish, The Rise of the Common Man, 1830-1850; and Arthur Charles Cole, The Irrepressible Conflict, 1850-1865.
