Cities, Industry, and a New "America"

1. Another Irony
   1. Flashback--The Jeffersonian Vision
      1. An Agrarian Republic
         1. Idealizing the Small Farmer
         2. The Danger of Europeanization
            1. Inequality
            2. Cities
            3. Industrialization
            4. An Aristocracy of Finance--"Stock-Jobbers"
      2. Achieving the Ideal--Westward Expansion
         1. Accessible Land
         2. Rural Prosperity
         3. Inhibited Industrialization
   2. Unintended Consequences
      1. Urbanization
      2. Industrialization
      3. An Aristocracy of Finance
2. Why the Disjuncture? The Commercial Republic
   1. "Independence" vs. "Success"
   2. The Lust for Private Gain
      1. A Market Culture
      2. Speculation--"Grow Up With the Country"
   3. Boosterism and City-Building
      1. Municipal Improvement
      2. Attracting Institutions
      3. Improving Trading Links--The Transportation Revolution
   4. A National Market
      1. Urban Specialization
      2. Mass Production and Distribution--The Rise of the Factory
         1. Characteristics
         2. The Prototype--New England Textiles
      3. Labor--A Republican Proletariat?
         1. Working Women--The Lowell Mill Girls
         2. Immigration