TY - BOOK AU - Lind,Michael TI - Land of promise: an economic history of the United States SN - 9780061834806 (hardback) AV - HC 103 L742l 2012 U1 - 330.973 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - HarperCollins Publishers, KW - Historia económica KW - Estados Unidos KW - United States KW - Economic conditions KW - Condiciones económicas N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -