Land of promise: an economic history of the United States

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.