The Dawn of Innovation

This title is written by the author of "The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown" and "The Tycoons": the fascinating, panoramic, handsomely illustrated story of the rise of the American economy from the Revolution to the Civil War. Bestselling historian and business writer Charles Morris brings us a rigorou [...]
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This title is written by the author of "The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown" and "The Tycoons": the fascinating, panoramic, handsomely illustrated story of the rise of the American economy from the Revolution to the Civil War. Bestselling historian and business writer Charles Morris brings us a rigorously researched and highly readable account of the rise of the American economy from the revolution to the Civil War. The United States was rapidly developing and commercializing even before the war broke out, but the war, and the tense years preceding it, jump-started the American gun industry and a prolific zeal for manufacturing that had been long neglected. For example, the shipbuilders' war also force-fed the growth of low-tech iron businesses that were dotted throughout rural New York, Vermont, and other Lake area states. Fundamentally, the story of what Morris calls "the first American industrial revolution" is a story of industrial competition with Great Britain as both nations struggled for land and power.