Capitalism takes command : the social transformation of nineteenth-century America

Capitalism takes command the social transformation of nineteenth-century America

Introduction: an American revolutionary tradition / Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith -- The agrarian context of American capitalist development / Christopher Clark -- The mortgage worked the hardest: the fate of landed independence in nineteenth-century America / Jonathan Levy -- Toxic debt, liar...

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Weitere Verfasser: Zakim, Michael (HerausgeberIn), Kornblith, Gary John (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Chicago, London The University of Chicago Press 2012
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Kapitalismus > Sozialer Wandel > Wirtschaftsgeschichte > USA > Capitalism > History > Social aspects > United States > Economic conditions > Social conditions > Konferenzschrift > Geschichte
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: an American revolutionary tradition / Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith -- The agrarian context of American capitalist development / Christopher Clark -- The mortgage worked the hardest: the fate of landed independence in nineteenth-century America / Jonathan Levy -- Toxic debt, liar loans, collateralized and securitized human beings and the panic of 1837 / Edward E. Baptist -- Inheriting property and debt: from family security to corporate accumulation / Elizabeth Blackmar -- Slave breeding and free love: an antebellum argument over slavery, capitalism, and personhood / Amy Dru Stanley -- Capitalism and the rise of the corporation nation / Robert E. Wright -- Capitalist aesthetics: Americans look at the London and Liverpool docks / Tamara Plakins Thornton -- William Leggett and the melodrama of the market / Jeffrey Sklansky -- Producing capitalism: the clerk at work / Michael Zakim -- Soulless monsters and iron horses: the Civil War, institutional change and American capitalism / Sean Patrick Adams -- Afterword: Anonymous history / Jean-Christophe Agnew
Beschreibung:Enth. 10 Beitr
Includes index
Beschreibung:viii, 358 Seiten
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24 cm
ISBN:0226451100
0-226-45110-0
0226451097
0-226-45109-7
9780226451107
978-0-226-45110-7
9780226451091
978-0-226-45109-1