A New Balance of Payments for the United States, 1790-1919: International Movement of Free and Enslaved People, Funds, Goods and Services
In: Palgrave Studies in American Economic History Ser.
Intro -- Preface -- Previous Books of Lawrence H. Officer -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I Why a New Balance of Payments -- 1 Existing Historical Balance of Payments: A Survey -- 1 Primer on Balance of Payments -- 2 Official Balance-of-Payments Tables: 1919-1939 -- 3 Non-Official Balance-of-Payments Tables: 1790-1918 -- 3.1 Methodology -- 3.2 Contemporary Tables -- 3.3 Historical Tables -- 3.3.1 Private Authors -- 3.3.2 Historical Statistics -- 4 State of the Art -- 5 Plan of the Book -- References -- 2 New Balance of Payments: Features and Implications -- 1 Why a New Balance of Payments -- 1.1 Overcome Limitations of Existing Studies -- 1.2 Take Advantage of Data -- 2 Measurement and Estimation Decisions -- 3 Features of Study -- 3.1 Summary Balance-of-Payments Table -- 3.2 New Series -- 3.3 Implications -- Appendix: Exchange Rates -- A. Domestic -- B. International -- References -- Part II Movement of People -- 3 Free People: Oceanic and Overland -- 1 U.S.-Citizen Tourists: Oceanic -- 1.1 Arrivals -- 1.1.1 Nationality Definition -- 1.1.2 New York Port -- 1.1.3 Total United States -- 1.2 Departures -- 1.3 Regional Breakdown -- 1.3.1 Europe -- 1.3.2 Oceanic Non-Europe -- 1.3.3 Comparisons and Allocation -- 2 Alien Travel: Oceanic Embarkations -- 2.1 Total Embarkations -- 2.1.1 1892-1919 -- 2.1.2 1820-1830 -- 2.1.3 1831-1891 -- 2.1.4 1787-1819 -- 2.2 Immigrants Versus Nonimmigrants -- 2.3 Determinants -- 2.4 Tourists and Distant-Land Transmigrants versus Canada and West Indies Transmigrants -- 2.5 Immigrants: Europe Versus Rest of World -- 3 Transit Immigration -- 4 Canada and Mexico Immigration -- 5 Immigrant Admittances -- 6 Emigration -- 7 Net Immigration -- Appendix: Deaths on Voyage and Debarments -- A. Deaths on Voyage -- B. Debarments -- References -- 4 Slaves: Oceanic -- 1 Conceptual Framework.