Postal Data Analysis and US Economic History in the 19th Century: Measuring Business Cycles and Social Mobility
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This is an interesting read for people involved with nineteenth-century US economic history as this book uses unexploited postal data to explore regional economic fluctuations in the nineteenth-century United States and to study social mobility and status among postmasters, particularly women and African Americans.
Previously unexploited postal data provides a good proxy for economic activity in the nineteenth-century United States, disaggregated down the area served by each post office for...






















