Acknowledgments
John McCusker thanks all who responded with advice and data as this chapter developed. He undertook this task while serving as a member of and, later, as the chair of the Standing Committee for Research, Archives and Data Bases of the Economic History Association. The support of other members of the committee was critical to the success of this effort. He is particularly grateful to the two authors of the earlier versions of this chapter in previous editions of Historical Statistics of the United States, Lawrence A. Harper and Jacob M. Price. In addition, he wishes to thank the following individuals: Dauril Alden, Bernard Bailyn, Robert A. Becker, Stephen D. Behrendt, Ira Berlin, Richard Buel Jr., Trevor G. Burnard, Lois Green Carr, Cary Carson, Joyce E. Chaplin, Paul G. E. Clemens, Converse D. Clowse, Peter A. Coclanis, Nicholas F. R. Crafts, François M. Crouzet, Louis Cullen, Paul A. David, K. G. Davies, Lance E. Davis, Thomas M. Doerflinger, Carville V. Earle, Christopher R. Eck, Marc M. Egnal, David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, Joseph A. Ernst, Robert William Fogel, David W. Galenson, Robert E. Gallman, Henry A. Gemery, Jack P. Greene, Farley Grubb, Michael R. Haines, Gewndolyn Midlo Hall, David J. Hancock, Stephen G. Hardy, Charles Knick. Harley, Lawrence A. Harper, P. M. G. Harris, William J. Hausman, John M. Hemphill, II, Ruth Wallis Herndon, Barry W. Higman, Ronald Hoffman, Stephen Innes, Michael J. Jarvis, Rupert C. Jarvis, Alice Hanson Jones, Dwyryd W. Jones, Laura Croghan Kamoie, John Komlos, Allan L. Kulikoff, William Letwin, Gloria L. Main, Jackson T. Main, Peter C. Mancall, Peter Mathias, Cathy D. Matson, Russell R. Menard, Ronald W. Michener, Annie M. Millard, Alexander Moore, Kenneth J. Morgan, Philip D. Morgan, Gary B. Nash, Robert C. Nash, Margaret Ellen Newell, Eric P. Newman, Douglass C. North, Patrick K. O'Brien, Paul F. Paskoff, Edwin J. Perkins, Jacob M. Price, David Richardson, James C. Riley, Donna J. Rilling, Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Winifred B. Rothenberg, Peter L. Rousseau, Jean Elliott Russo, Anita H. Rutman, Darrett B. Rutman, Neal Salisbury, Jürgen Schneider, Stuart Schwartz, Mary McKinney Schweitzer, Carole Shammas, James F. Shepherd, Billy G. Smith, Bruce Smith, Daniel S. Smith, Simon D. Smith, T. C. Smout, Richard H. Steckel, Richard Sutch, Richard E. Sylla, Thomas M. Truxes, Daniel F. Vickers, John Joseph Wallis, Lorena S. Walsh, Gary M. Walton, Thomas J. Weiss, Elmus Wicker, Robert E. Wright, and Nuala B. Zahedieh.
McCusker is also very grateful for all of the financial and institutional support he has received: Trinity University; Mr. Gilbert M. Denman Jr. and the Ewing Halsell Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. A. Baker Duncan, and Mr. and Mrs. A. Randy Townsend for research support; the University of Cambridge for an appointment as a Visiting Senior Mellon Scholar in American History; the Institute of United States Studies, University of London, for a John Adams Fellowship; the British Library for a fellowship at the Eccles Centre for American Studies; the Leverhulme Trust of Great Britain for an appointment as a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge; Girton College, University of Cambridge, for a Helen Cam Fellowship; the Fulbright Foundation for an appointment as a Fulbright Senior Scholar to Great Britain; the Rockefeller Center, Bellagio, Italy, for a period as a Scholar in Residence; the Bibliographical Society of America and the Bibliographical Society of Great Britain for a Fredson Bowers Grant; the Bibliographical Society of America for a Reese Fellowship; the American Philosophical Society for a Franklin Research Grant; the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Brussels, for the offer of a fellowship.
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