Excerpt from Social and Economic Forces in American History: From the American Nation, a History In his general introduction to that history the editor, Prof. A. _b. Hart, writes that it must include the social life of the people, their religion, their literature, and their schools. It must include their economic life, occupations, labor systems, and organizations of capital. While this book has been prepared with emphasis upon social history, yet social and economic phases are inevitably inter woven, and both are presented with some references to other conditions where this had seemed necessary. The purpose has been to indicate essentials, and therefore these successive views of social and eco nomic phases afford a practically consecutive and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.