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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Earliest Americans.- Chapter 3. The Development of European Colonies.- Chapter 4. The Revolution.- Chapter 5. Focus on Economists: Adam Smith, Ricardo, von Thünen, and Dupuit.- Chapter 6. The Third Founding Document and the Land Deals That Created the United States.- Chapter 7. The Nation Under the Constitution: Creation of a Financial System.- Chapter 8. Land Policy and Land Acquisition.- Chapter 9. Overview of U.S. Economic Growth, 1790 – 1860.- Chapter 10. The Transportation and Communication Revolution, Business Cycles, and Urbanization.- Chapter 11. Focus on an Economist: Karl Marx.- Chapter 12. Slavery and the Path to War.- Chapter 13. The Civil War.- Chapter 14. Post Civil War America.- Chapter 15. The American Economy, 1865-1914.- Chapter 16. Nobel Prize for Economic Historians.- Chapter 17. The Marginal Revolution in the United States.- Chapter 18. The U.S. at the End of the Nineteenth Century.
