Show Notes
- Amazon USA Store: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307386775?tag=9natree-20
- Amazon Worldwide Store: https://global.buys.trade/American-Colossus%3A-The-Triumph-of-Capitalism%2C-1865-1900-H-W-Brands.html
- Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/american-colossus-the-triumph-of-capitalism-1865/id1440668832?itsct=books_box_link&itscg=30200&ls=1&at=1001l3bAw&ct=9natree
- eBay: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=American+Colossus+The+Triumph+of+Capitalism+1865+1900+H+W+Brands+&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5339060787&customid=9natree&toolid=10001&mkevt=1
- Read more: https://english.9natree.com/read/0307386775/
#postCivilWarcapitalism #GildedAgerailroads #WallStreetfinance #industrialconcentration #capitalismanddemocracy #AmericanColossus
American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 is H. W. Brands’s broad narrative history of the United States in the generation after the Civil War. The book examines how a battered republic became an industrial, financial, and continental power, with capitalism serving as the central organizing force. Brands focuses on the rise of railroads, corporations, banking, mass production, urban growth, western expansion, labor conflict, and political resistance. His purpose is not simply to celebrate growth, but to show its contradictory effects. Capitalism raised living standards, enlarged markets, and made the United States a major economic power, yet it also concentrated wealth, destabilized communities, intensified class conflict, and strained democratic ideals. Written for general readers rather than specialists, the book synthesizes a large historical period into an accessible account of how business leaders, workers, farmers, politicians, financiers, and reformers helped shape modern America.