Divergent paths: how culture and institutions have shaped North American growth

I. The Shaping of Regional Societies, 1750s to 1850s. 1. Introduction: The Paths Diverge. 2. Eighteenth-Century Perceptions. 3. Peasants and Freeholders. 4. Religion and Labor. 5. Mobility and Education. 6. Entrepreneurial Spirit in the North and South. 7. Entrepreneurial Spirit in French Canada. 8. Intellectual Life

II. From the 1860s to the 1990s. 9. The Gap Widens: 1860s to 1940. 10. The Paths Converge: 1940 to 1975. 11. The Post-Industrial Economy, 1975 to the 1990s

App. A. Some Thorny Concepts: Capitalism, the Capitalist Spirit, and the Household Economy

App. B. Three Farms in 1750.