I: The transit of technology -- The tools brought over -- Importing the industrial revolution -- Improving transportation -- II: The domestication of the industrial revolution -- The expansion of American manufactures -- The mechanization of farming -- III: the imprint of American technology -- Creating an urban environment -- Westward the course of industry -- Export, exploitation, and empire -- IV: Technology and hegemony -- The coming of science and systems -- The decade of prosperity and consumption -- Depression: study and subsidy -- Wars and the "American century" -- Challenge and change in a postmodern world -- V: Globalization -- Our (un)wired world -- America's global reach.