Austrian Aid to American Catholics, 1830-1860

The Relative Profitability of the Institution of American Slavery: 1830-1860

January 2, 2006 Abstract The profitability of owning slaves has been a popular area of research in economic history. Existing analyses have focused on estimating the rate of return on slaves and presenting rates of return on other available antebellum investments. Modern stockportfolio performance measures allow us to rank the owning on slaves with other investments of the period over an extend...

American midwives, 1860 to the present

American medicine and statistical thinking, 1800—1860

well-known study of English ecclesiastical thought on social questions, was clearly in an ideal position to investigate the campaigns and ruminations on fertility in this period, and he has done the job with exemplary thoroughness and care. It is possibly to be regretted that the author did not highlight the peculiarities of the English debate on these questions by reference to more European an...

Urban Investment versus Local Enterprise: Railroad Financing in Pennsylvania and Virginia, 1830-1860

Scholars have long recognized the important differences between the northern and southern rail networks. Business historians focusing on northern enterprises have documented an impressive list of accomplishments: railroads pioneered modern accounting methods; railroads introduced new management techniques and organizational structures; and railroads helped transform national and international c...

The British medical profession and contagion theory: puerperal fever as a case study, 1830-1860.

AmR EXAMINING the reactions of physicians to sporadic, socially disruptive epidemics of cholera, yellow fever, and the plague, historians have concluded that "anticontagionism" characterized medical thought in the first half of the nineteenth century.' That conclusion is not borne out by this study. It is true that well-known figures confronted with the task of explaining the capricious visitat...