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Presents a historical perspective on the relationship between economic, technological, and political change by analyzing the economic growth of the United States over the course of two centuries. Full description
Table of Contents:
- A land of promise
- The preindustrial economy
- Nation building
- The first American economy
- The age of steam
- "There is nothing that cannot be produced by machinery": the first industrial revolution
- American systems
- Plain mechanic power: The Civil War and the second republic
- The iron horse and the lightning
- The motor age
- Franklin's baby: electricity, automobiles, and the second Industrial Revolution
- The day of combination
- The new era
- A new deal for America
- Arsenal of democracy
- The glorious thirty years
- The great dismantling
- The information age
- As we may think: the third Industrial Revolution
- The bubble economy
- The next American economy.