"An illustrated business history of the United States from colonial times to the present"-- Provided by publisher.

Chapter 1. America's first business, 1763-1789 -- Chapter 2. Manufacturing and banking, 1790-1815 -- Chapter 3. Canals and railroads change everything, 1816-1843 -- Chapter 4. Land, gold, the telegraph, and oil, 1844-1859 -- Chapter 5. "And the War came," 1860-1877 -- Chapter 6. The Gilded Age, 1878-1898 -- Chapter 7. Combination and reform, 1899-1912 -- Chapter 8. Mass production, cars, and war, 1913-1920 -- Chapter 9. Excess and depression, 1921-1939 -- Chapter 10. The business of war and the postwar boom, 1940-1958 -- Chapter 11. A business Golden Age, 1959-1972 -- Chapter 12. Oil overdependence and malaise, 1973-1980 -- Chapter 13. The stormy eighties, 1981-1995 -- Chapter 14. The digital revolution and financial crisis, 1996-2015.