xvii, 622 pages : 27 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Growth, welfare, and the american economy -- Part one The colonial era 1607-1776: Founding the colonies -- Colonial economic activities -- The economic relations of the colonies -- Economic progress and wealth -- Three crises and revolt -- Part two The revolutionary, early national, and antebellum eras 1776-1860: Hard realities for a new nation -- Land and the early western movements -- Transportation and market growth -- Market expansion and industry in first transition -- Labor during the early industrial period -- Money and banking in the developing economy -- The entrenchment of slavery and regional conflict -- Part three The reunification era 1860-1920: War, recovery, and regional divergence -- Agriculture's western advance -- Railroads and economic change -- Industrial expansion and concentration -- The emergence of america's labor consciousness -- Money, prices and finance in the postbellum era -- Commerce at home and abroad -- Part four War, Depression, and war again 1914-1946: World war I, 1914-1918 -- The roaring twenties -- The great depression -- The new deal -- World war II -- Part five The postwar era 1946 to the present: The changing role of the u.s. government -- Growth and the business cycle after world war II -- Manufacturing, productivity, and labor -- Achievements of the past, challenges for the future

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