โ Lind, Michael
๐ Fiction
๐
2012;2013
๐ HarperCollins
๐ en-ca
โ 368 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States
โ Scribed by Michael Lind
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 377 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
From one of America's leading intellectuals comes a sweeping and original work of economic history, recounting the epic story of America's rise to become the world's dominant economy.
In Land of Promise , bestselling author Michael Lind provides a groundbreaking account of how a weak collection of former British colonies became an industrial, financial, and military colossus. From the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the American economy has been transformed by wave after wave of emerging technology: the steam engine, electricity, the internal combustion engine, computer technology. Yet technology-driven change leads to growing misalignment between an innovative economy and anachronistic legal and political structures until the gap is closed by the modernization of America's institutions--often amid upheavals such as the Civil War and Reconstruction and the Great Depression and World War II.
Against the dramatic backdrop of shattering tides...
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