Henry A Gemery
Biographic Data
| ID | 997127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Henry A Gemery |
| GIVEN NAMES | Henry A |
| FAMILY NAME | Gemery |
| SIGNATURE | GEMERY H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colby College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 196 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Europeans on the Move
This book considers the phenomenon of European migration during the three centuries following the first Columbus voyage to America. A survey of the medieval background shows that Europeans were adept at long-distance travel in search of employment and opportunity, well before the encounter with America, and that some of these medieval adventurers had long been pressing beyond the perimeter of Europe. The essays reveal that established patterns of…
Science, Technology, and the Environment
United States
The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1815
The Modern World System. III. The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730-1840s
Evidence on English/African terms of trade in the eighteenth century
Assessing Productivity in Precolonial African Agriculture and Industry 1500-1800
Voyagers to the West
Occasionally books appear that are broad enough in subject or methodology to afford scholars in various specialties a useful opportunity to look at the same material from different viewpoints. Like other documents, works of history tend to answer only those questions asked of them, and the juxtaposition of the questions important to readers of diverse scholarly backgrounds may be in itself illuminating. For this, the first in a continuing series …
Continuity in West African Monetary History? An Outline of Monetary Development
Imported rather than indigenous moneys dominate the monetary history of West Africa, and represent a strong though not always recognized element of continuity. The role of imported currencies in that region's economic development is readily apparent from the works of Philip D. Curtin, A. G. Hopkins, Marion Johnson, Paul Lovejoy, Walter Ofonagoro, and other historians who have painstakingly reconstructed the monetary patterns of societies with few…
Traders, Planters, and Slaves
The Mystery of the Fourth Cell
Economics
The Earnings of Skilled and Unskilled Immigrants at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Most historical studies of immigration in nineteenth-century America have failed to distinguish among the labor-market experiences of different immigrant groups. Using a sample of some 4000 wage earners from turn-of-the-century Iowa, we examine the relative earnings of skilled and unskilled immigrants and suggest the factors which contributed to their very different post-immigration experiences. The results indicate that prior knowledge of a trad…
Peasant, Lord, and Merchant
Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834
The Limits of Liberty
The Notorious Triangle
White Servitude in Colonial America
Cash Cropping, Currency Acquisition and Seigniorage in West Africa
The Uncommon Market
The Uncommon Market
The Uncommon Market
The Uncommon Market
The Uncommon Market
The Uncommon market
The Uncommon market
The Modern World System. III. The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730-1840s
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Two necessary conditions for the existence of New World slavery and the slave trade are an acute labour shortage and an elastic supply of coerced labour. Though the former condition has been the mainstay of hypotheses on slavery where high land/labour ratios were viewed as causal determinants, less attention has been given to the role of labour supply responses. This paper joins these conditions in a model which postulates that labour demand stem…
The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1815
The Earnings of Skilled and Unskilled Immigrants at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Most historical studies of immigration in nineteenth-century America have failed to distinguish among the labor-market experiences of different immigrant groups. Using a sample of some 4000 wage earners from turn-of-the-century Iowa, we examine the relative earnings of skilled and unskilled immigrants and suggest the factors which contributed to their very different post-immigration experiences. The results indicate that prior knowledge of a trad…
Evidence on English/African terms of trade in the eighteenth century
Economic Opportunity and the Responses of “Old” and “New” Migrants to the United States
The hostile and patronizing attitudes of native Americans toward the increasing number of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe at the turn of the century raise a number of issues that bear on the history of U.S. immigration policy and on other matters. Utilizing Zellner's SUR technique, a model of settlement patterns of ten immigrant nationalities is estimated, and the appropriate F-statistics are generated to test several of these issues:…
Continuity in West African Monetary History? An Outline of Monetary Development
Imported rather than indigenous moneys dominate the monetary history of West Africa, and represent a strong though not always recognized element of continuity. The role of imported currencies in that region's economic development is readily apparent from the works of Philip D. Curtin, A. G. Hopkins, Marion Johnson, Paul Lovejoy, Walter Ofonagoro, and other historians who have painstakingly reconstructed the monetary patterns of societies with few…
Europeans on the Move
This book considers the phenomenon of European migration during the three centuries following the first Columbus voyage to America. A survey of the medieval background shows that Europeans were adept at long-distance travel in search of employment and opportunity, well before the encounter with America, and that some of these medieval adventurers had long been pressing beyond the perimeter of Europe. The essays reveal that established patterns of…
Assessing Productivity in Precolonial African Agriculture and Industry 1500-1800
Comparative Disadvantage
Comparative Disadvantage: The Case of Sugar Cultivation in West Africa The absence of sugar exports from the history of West African economic development is as familiar as is its dominating presence in the portions of the Americas where slave-using sugar plantations prevailed.l Why exports were almost wholly absent is less apparent. Why did the obvious saving in labor transport costs not induce large-scale African sugar cultivation?2 Did soil con…
British‐irish Settlement Patterns in the U.S
Traders, Planters, and Slaves
The Mystery of the Fourth Cell
The Uncommon Market
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Two necessary conditions for the existence of New World slavery and the slave trade are an acute labour shortage and an elastic supply of coerced labour. Though the former condition has been the mainstay of hypotheses on slavery where high land/labour ratios were viewed as causal determinants, less attention has been given to the role of labour supply responses. This paper joins these conditions in a model which postulates that labour demand stem…
Some additional evidence on settlement patterns of Scandinavian migrants to the United States
The settlement patterns within the United States of Scandinavian migrants have been carefully examined by Vedder and Gallaway. 1 Richard K. Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway, ‘The Settlement Preferences of Scandinavian Emigrants to the United States, 1850–1960’, Scandinavian Economic History Review XVIII (1970),159–176. Relying primarily on decennial United States census data for the period 1850 to 1960, they employed multiple regression techniques t…
The Role of Migrant Stock and Lagged Migration in the Settlement Patterns of Nineteenth Century Immigrants
James A. Dunlevy, Henry A. Gemery, The Role of Migrant Stock and Lagged Migration in the Settlement Patterns of Nineteenth Century Immigrants, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 59, No. 2 (May, 1977), pp. 137-144
British‐irish Settlement Patterns in the U.S
Economic Opportunity and the Responses of “Old” and “New” Migrants to the United States
The hostile and patronizing attitudes of native Americans toward the increasing number of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe at the turn of the century raise a number of issues that bear on the history of U.S. immigration policy and on other matters. Utilizing Zellner's SUR technique, a model of settlement patterns of ten immigrant nationalities is estimated, and the appropriate F-statistics are generated to test several of these issues:…
The Uncommon market
Searching for the Invisible Man
Comparative Disadvantage
Comparative Disadvantage: The Case of Sugar Cultivation in West Africa The absence of sugar exports from the history of West African economic development is as familiar as is its dominating presence in the portions of the Americas where slave-using sugar plantations prevailed.l Why exports were almost wholly absent is less apparent. Why did the obvious saving in labor transport costs not induce large-scale African sugar cultivation?2 Did soil con…
The Uncommon Market
The Uncommon Market
The Uncommon Market
The Uncommon Market
Cash Cropping, Currency Acquisition and Seigniorage in West Africa
The Uncommon Market
White Servitude in Colonial America
The Limits of Liberty
The Notorious Triangle
Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834
The Earnings of Skilled and Unskilled Immigrants at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Most historical studies of immigration in nineteenth-century America have failed to distinguish among the labor-market experiences of different immigrant groups. Using a sample of some 4000 wage earners from turn-of-the-century Iowa, we examine the relative earnings of skilled and unskilled immigrants and suggest the factors which contributed to their very different post-immigration experiences. The results indicate that prior knowledge of a trad…
Peasant, Lord, and Merchant
The Mystery of the Fourth Cell
Economics
Voyagers to the West
Occasionally books appear that are broad enough in subject or methodology to afford scholars in various specialties a useful opportunity to look at the same material from different viewpoints. Like other documents, works of history tend to answer only those questions asked of them, and the juxtaposition of the questions important to readers of diverse scholarly backgrounds may be in itself illuminating. For this, the first in a continuing series …
Continuity in West African Monetary History? An Outline of Monetary Development
Imported rather than indigenous moneys dominate the monetary history of West Africa, and represent a strong though not always recognized element of continuity. The role of imported currencies in that region's economic development is readily apparent from the works of Philip D. Curtin, A. G. Hopkins, Marion Johnson, Paul Lovejoy, Walter Ofonagoro, and other historians who have painstakingly reconstructed the monetary patterns of societies with few…
Traders, Planters, and Slaves
Economics (20 works) · History (16 works) · Geography (14 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · History (10 works) · Economic history (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Atlantic slave trade (6 works)