Rulers and Capital in Historical Perspectives: State Formation and Financial Development in India and the United States

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhishek Chatterjee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Financial Development ◽  
State Formation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Perspectives

Remapping American Catholicism

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Matovina
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
North America ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Catholicism ◽  
Geographic Dispersion ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
European Immigrants ◽  
Church And Society

This chapter argues that the long-standing links between Latin and North America already lead many Latinos to adopting a more hemispheric perspective to Catholicism in the United States. The memory that Hispanics established faith communities in Spanish and Mexican territories before the United States expanded into them shaped the historical development of those communities as they, their descendants, and even later immigrants became part of the United States. The chapter shows how such perceptions conflict with the presumption that European immigrants and their descendants set a unilateral paradigm for assimilating newcomers into church and society. Since the early 1990s, the geographic dispersion of Latinos across the United States and the growing diversity of their national backgrounds have brought the historical perspectives of Catholics from Latin America and the United States into unprecedented levels of daily contact.

Political Economy of Financial Development: Canada and the United States in the Mirror of the Other, 1790–1840

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 653-665
Author(s):  
Richard Sylla
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Financial Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business History ◽  
The Political ◽  
British North America ◽  
Modern Economic Growth ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
Political Conditions

A meeting of the Business History Conference in Toronto with “The Political Economy of Enterprise” as its theme provides an opportunity to consider some historical similarities and differences between the climates of enterprise in Canada and the United States. Because much of my recent work has been on financial development in the United States in the early decades, 1790–1840, I shall focus on that period. During that period, finance, enterprise, and economic development in the United States made great strides. Across the border in British North America, progress in all three areas was limited. The contrast sheds some light on the political conditions that favor financial development, flourishing enterprise, and modern economic growth.

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