Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Another Take on How It All Began

1. The Capitalist Spirit and the British Economic Miracle

2. "The Great Seventeenth-Century Exception"

Part II: The Spread of the New Economic Consciousness on the European Continent

3. The First Convert: France

4. The Power of Concerted Action: Putting the Spirit of Capitalism to Work in Germany

Part III: The Asian Challenge: The Way of Japan

5. Japanese Nationalism

6. Racing and Fighting

Part IV: The Economic Civilization: The Spirit of Capitalism in the New World

7. Searching for the American System

8. The Thrust

Epilogue: Looking Backward from Year 2000

Notes

Index