Description
Spanning four centuries, this lively narrative history explores how American ambition, invention, and enterprise shaped the nation’s development. Through stories of telegraphy, railroads, firearms, banking, aviation, suburbia, retail brands, and digital technology, it traces the unexpected connections between breakthrough ideas, changing markets, and broader social and political forces. The book presents capitalism as a defining lens through which to reconsider familiar figures, industries, and turning points—from industrial expansion to the rise of Silicon Valley. Accessible and wide-ranging, it offers an alternative history of America as a country continually transformed by its next big thing.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Press
Published Jan 1, 2017
560 pages
ISBN: 9780399563799
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First Published
2017
Language
eng
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Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Americana by Bhu Srinivasan.