Americana

Outline

Americana (2017) tells the history of the United States through the businesses and industries that shaped it. Bhu Srinivasan travels across four hundred years, from early trading companies and farming to railroads, oil, cars, banking, and the internet. He shows how innovation, competition, and government decisions worked together to build the modern American economy.

• Americana tells the history of the United States through the businesses and industries that shaped it, rather than through politics alone.
• The story spans four hundred years, starting with early trading companies and farming and ending with the internet.
• Railroads, oil, cars and banking each reshaped the American economy and changed how people lived and worked.
• Innovation, competition and government decisions worked together to build the modern American economy; none did it alone.
• Reading history through business shows how economic breakthroughs shaped American culture, identity and ambition across generations.

Bhu Srinivasan is an American entrepreneur and author who has founded technology and media companies. He is known for his interest in the history of business and capitalism. Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism is his first book and was widely praised for its accessible storytelling.