Head and tail pieces. For continuation, see the author's America in midpassage. The agricultural era.--The industrial era.

Head and tail pieces. For continuation, see the author's America in midpassage.

England's colonial secret -- Laying the structural base of the thirteen colonies -- The growth of economic and political power -- Provincial America -- The clash of metropolis and colony -- Independence and civil conflict -- Populism and reaction -- The rise of national parties -- Agricultural imperialism and the balance of power -- The young republic -- New agricultural states -- Jacksonian democracy: a triumphant farmer-labor party -- Westward to the Pacific -- The sweep of economic forces -- The politics of the economic drift -- Democracy: romantic and realistic.