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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World Book 70), by Robert J. Gordon

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Their image as country bumpkins in the eyes of Europeans was erased at the London Crystal Palace exhibition of 1851, when British and foreign observers were shocked and impressed not just by the advanced tools displayed by the Americans, but, more important, by their apparently new method of manufacture:
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World Book 70)
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World Book 70)
by Robert J. Gordon
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