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In the 50 years between the end of the Civil War and the start of the World War I in Europe, the United States drifted steadily away from its agrarian foundations to become an urbanized, industrialized nation with an economy controlled for the most part by big business. It was, as historian Vernon L. Parrington (1963, 6) described, a time in which “capitalism was master of the country.”
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© 2016 David E. McNabb
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McNabb, D.E. (2016). Beginnings of an Industrial Nation, 1865–1920. In: A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume I. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137503268_14
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