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- The Age of Capital traces the impact of the first major leap in economic development following the Civil War: the industrial revolution, when capitalists set capital down in factories to produce commercial goods, fueled by labor moving into cities.
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Jan 25, 2021 · In the late nineteenth century, the United States outpaced its European rivals in rate of population growth, industrial output, and agriculture. A major factor spurring this rise in wealth was the continued growth of business enterprise and the government policies that enabled its unprecedented scale and scope.
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Nov 1, 2021 · The historian Carl Degler once wrote that capitalism came to North America “on the first ships,” and as simplistic as that might sound, he captured a wider sense that private property,...
Now, in an ambitious single-volume history of the United States, he reveals how, from the beginning of U.S. history to the present, capitalism in America has evolved through four distinct ages and how the country’s economic evolution is inseparable from the nature of American life itself.
Oct 12, 1999 · The Virginians in Jamestown, the Puritans in Massachusetts Bay, the Quakers in Pennsylvania and other early settlers of what later became the United States all brought with them elements of capitalism, precursors of the future nation's market-driven direction.
A new book outlines the intertwined history of capitalism and democracy in the United States, and why pragmatism has outweighed ideology.
Ages of American Capitalism is divided into four “books” whose titles convey its narrative arc: “The Age of Commerce, 1660–1860,” “The Age of Capital, 1860–1932,” “The Age of Control, 1932–1980,” and “The Age of Chaos, 1980–.” The first three parts contain six chapters each; the last, four.
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Meanwhile, the European conquest of new parts of the globe, notably sub-Saharan Africa, yielded valuable natural resources such as rubber, diamonds and coal and helped fuel trade and investment between the European imperial powers, their colonies, and the United States.
