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Land of promise : an economic history of the United States
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Land of promise : an economic history of the United States / Michael Lind.
ISBN
9780061834806 (hardback)
0061834807 (hardcover)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Harper, 2012.
Physical Description
vi, 586 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary
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.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 26, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [485]-552) and index.
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.
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