Introduction: The setting: 1. The climate of capitalist development in America -- 2. The stages of capitalism -- 3. The origins of capitalism -- 4. The bulwarks of capitalism -- 5. The discoveries and their effects -- 6. The English background -- 7. The Puritan revolution -- 8. The settlement of the English colonies in America -- 9. The building of a class society -- 10. The economy of colonial America -- 11. The presures on colonial mercantile capitalism -- 12. The revolutionary crisis -- 13. The triumph of the first american revolution -- 14. The establishment of a national union -- 15. The role of the West -- 16. The exolotation of the public domain -- 17. Internal commerce and the mercantile capitalism -- 19. Manufactures -- 20. Condition of the workers -- 21. Planter capitalism -- 22. The pressures on the slave economy -- 23. The irrepressible conflict -- 24. The Civil War -- 25. The reconstruction period -- 26. Triumphant american capitalism -- 27. Was american capitalism a success?.

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